Instruments The term "trade mark" includes any word or mark of any kind whatever, which is lawfully used by any person to denote that any article is of his manufacture, workmanship, production, or merchandise, or is a thing of a peculiar or particular description made or sold by him. The term "counterfeit " includes any imitation of a genuine mark which is not genuine and which resembles the genuine mark. CHAPTER XLII.—Preparation for Forgery. 446. Any person who without lawful authority or excuse, the and material proof of which lies on him :for forgery. (1.) Makes, or begins or prepares to make, or uses, or knowingly has in his possession or disposes of, any paper resembling any paper such as is specially provided by the proper authority for the purpose of being used for making any of the things following, that is to say : (a.) Any document acknowledging or being evidence of the indebtness of the Government of the Protectorate, or of the Government of any of His Majesty's dominions, or of any country under the protection of His Majesty, or of any foreign Prince or State, or of any person carrying on the business of banking, to any person; or (b.) Any stamp, licence, permit, or other document, used for the purposes of the public revenue of the Protectorate, or of any part of His Majesty's dominions, or of any country under the protection of His Majesty; (c.) Any bank note; or any machinery or instrument or material for making any such paper, or capable of producing in or on paper any words, figures, letters, marks, or lines, resembling any words, figures, letters, marks or lines used in or on any paper specially provided for any such purpose; or (2.) Impresses or makes upon any plate or material any words, figures, letters, marks, or lines, the print whereof resembles, in whole or part, the words, figures, letters, marks, or lines used in any such document as aforesaid; or (3.) Uses, or knowingly has in his possession or disposes of, any plate or material upon which any such words, figures, letters, marks, or lines, are impressed or made; or (4.) Uses, or knowingly has in his possession or disposes of, any paper on which is written or printed the whole or any part of the usual contents of any such document as is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years. 447. Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, the Counterfeit proof of which lies on him : (1.) Makes or mends, or begins or prepares to make or mend, or uses, or knowingly has in his possession or disposes of, any die, plate, or instrument, capable of making an impression resembling that made by any die, plate, or instrument, used for the purpose of making any stamp, whether impressed or adhesive, which is used for the purposes of the public revenue or of the Postal Department or Telegraph Deparment in the Protectorate or in any part of His Majesty's dominions, or in any country under the protection of His Majesty, or in any foreign State, or capable of producing in or on paper any words, figures, letters, marks, or lines, resembling any words, figures, letters, marks, or lines, used in or on any paper specially provided by the proper authority for any such purpose; or (2.) Knowingly has in his possession or disposes of any paper or other material which has on it the impression of any such die, plate, or instrument, or any paper which has on it or in it any such words, figures, letters, marks, or lines, as aforesaid; or (3.) Fraudulently, and with intent that use may be made of any such stamp as aforesaid, or of any part of it, removes the stamp from any material in any way whatever; or (4.) Fraudulently, and with intent that use may be made of any part of any such stamp, mutilates the stamp; or (5.) Fraudulently fixes or places upon any material or upon any such stamp, any stamp or part of a stamp which has been in any way removed from any other material, or out of or from any other stamp; or (6.) Fraudulently, and with intent that use may be made of any such stamp which has been already impressed upon or attached to any material, erases or otherwise removes, either really or apparently, from such material anything whatever written on it; or stamps. (7.) Knowingly has in his possession or disposes of anything obtained or prepared by any such unlawful act as aforesaid; is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years. Paper for postal purposes. Paper and dies for postage stamps. 448. Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which lies on him, knowingly has in his possession or disposes of any paper which has been specially provided by the proper authority for the purpose of being used for postage stamps, money orders, or postal notes, before such paper has been lawfully issued for public use, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years. 449. Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which lies on him : (1.) Makes, or begins or prepares to make, or uses for any postal purpose, or has in his possession, or disposes of any imitation or representation, on paper or any other material, of any stamp used for denoting any rate of postage of the Protectorate, or of any part of His Majesty's dominions, or of any country under the protection of His Majesty, or of any foreign country; or (2.) Makes or mends, or begins or prepares to make or mend, or uses, or has in his possession or disposes of, any die, plate, instrument, or material, for making any such imitation or representation; is guilty of an offence, and is liable to imprisonment for one year, or to a fine of fifty pounds. And any stamps, and any other such things as aforesaid, which are found in his possession, are forfeited to His Majesty. For the purposes of this section a stamp purporting to denote a rate of postage of any country is to be taken to be a stamp used for postal purposes in that country until the contrary is shown. Personation in general. CHAPTER XLIII.-Personation. 450. Any person who, with intent to defraud any person, falsely represents himself to be some other person, living or dead, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three years. If the representation is that the offender is a person entitled by will or operation of law to any specific property and he commits the offence to obtain such property or possession thereof, he is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years. acknow 451. Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, the Falsely proof of which lies on him, makes, in the name of any other ledging person, before any Court or person lawfully authorised to take such deeds, an acknowledgment, an acknowledgment of liability of any kind, recognior an acknowledgment of a deed or other instrument, is guilty of sances, &c. a felony, and liable to imprisonment for seven years. named in a 452. Any person who utters any document which has been Personation issued by lawful authority to another person, and whereby that of a person other person is certified to be a person possessed of any qualification certificate. recognised by law for any purpose, or to be the holder of any office, or to be entitled to exercise any profession, trade, or business, or to be entitled to any right or privilege, or to enjoy any rank or status, and falsely represents himself to be the person named in the document, is guilty of an offence of the same kind and is liable to the same punishment as if he had forged the document. 453. Any person who, being a person to whom any document Lending has been issued by lawful authority whereby he is certified to be certificates for personaa person possessed of any qualification recognised by law for any tion. purpose, or to be the holder of any office, or to be entitled to exercise any profession, trade, or business, or to be entitled to any right or privilege, or to enjoy any rank or status, lends the document to another person with intent that that other may represent himself to be the person named therein, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three years. The offender cannot be arrested without warrant. Division IV.-Offences Connected with Trade and Breach of Contract, CHAPTER XLIV.-Fraudulent Debtors. 454. Any person who, with intent to defraud his creditors or Fraudulent any of them: (1.) Makes any gift, delivery, or transfer, of his property, or any charge on his property; or dealing with property by debtors. (2.) Conceals or removes any part of his property after or within two months before the date of any unsatisfied judgment or order for payment of money obtained against him ; is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for one year. PART VII.—PREPARATION TO COMMIT OFFENCES: CONSPIRACY: Attempts to commit offences. CHAPTER XLV.-Attempts, Incitements, and Preparation, to Commit 455. Any person who attempts to commit a felony or misdemeanour is guilty of an offence, which, unless otherwise stated, is a misdemeanour. Punishment of attempts to commit felonies. Punishment of attempts to commit misdemeanours. Punishment of attempts to commit simple offences. Reduction of 456. Any person who attempts to commit a felony of such a kind that a person convicted of it is liable to the punishment of death or of imprisonment for a term of fourteen years or upwards, with or without any other punishment, is guilty of a felony, and is liable, if no other punishment is provided, to imprisonment for seven years. Any person who attempts to committee a felony of any other kind is liable, if no other punishment is provided, to a punishment equal to one-half of the greatest punishment to which an offender convicted of the felony which he attempted to commit is liable. 457. Any person who attempts to commit a misdemeanour is liable, if no other punishment is provided, to a punishment equal to one-half of the greatest punishment to which an offender convicted of the offence which he attempted to convict is liable. 458. Any person who attempts to commit a simple offence is liable, if no other punishment is provided, to one-half of the greatest punishment to which an offender convicted of the offence which he attempted to convict is liable. 4.59. When a person is convicted of attempting to commit an punishment. offence, if it is proved that he desisted of his own motion from |