40

Forging or
altering
register
book,
notice, etc.
Making false
entrics,
giving false
certificates.

Forgimy seal.

Destroying
or injuring
register
book, etc.

Losing or
injuring
document.

Issuing of
certificate
to person
within
prohibited
degrees.

Ord.24-19-43,

s. 3.

Ch. 29. No. 2.] Marriage.

to the law of England from time to time in force, the
marriage of such persons shall be null and void.

Offences.

36. Every person who shall knowingly and wilfully forge
or alter or falsely make, or procure to be forged or altered or
falsely made, or shall offer, utter, or dispose of, knowing the
same to have been forged or altered or falsely made, any
register book or any notice, licence, certificate, entry, or
statement mentioned in this Ordinance, or any certified
copy thereof respectively, or shall wilfully insert or cause to
be inserted in any register book or certified copy thereof any
false entry or marriage, or shall wilfully give any false
certificate, or shall certify any writing to be a copy or
extract of any register book, knowing the same to be false
in any part thereof, or shall forge or counterfeit the seal of
the Registrar General, shall be guilty of felony and, on
conviction on indictment, shall be liable to imprisonment
for seven years,

37. Every person who shall unlawfully and maliciously
destroy or injure or cause to be destroyed or injured, any
register book or any notice, licence, certificate, entry, or
statement mentioned in this Ordinance, or any certified copy
thereof respectively, shall be guilty of felony, and, on con-
viction on indictment, shall be lable to imprisonment for
three years.

38. levery person having the custody of any register book
or certified copy thereof or of any part thereof, who shall
carclessly lose or injure the same or carelessly allow the same
to be injured whilst in his keeping, shall be liable to a fine of
two hundred and forty dollars for every such offence.

39. Every District Registrar or Marriage Officer who shall
knowingly and wilfully issue any certificate for the marriage
of any persons being within the prohibited degrees of
consanguinity or affinity according to the law of England
from time to time in force shall be guilty of felony, and, on
conviction on indictment, shall be liable to imprisonment for
three years.