§ 21. Same: receiving or passing such paper. If any person not punishable under the provisions of the next preceding section, shall knowingly pass or receive in payment any such note, security, check, ticket or other thing mentioned in said section, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. (Code 1916, c. 151.)

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$ 18. Possession of counterfeit with intent to utter.—If a person have in his possession forged bank notes, or pieces of forged or base coin, such as are mentioned in section 15 of this chapter, knowing the same to be forged or base, with intent to utter or employ the same as true, or to sell, exchange, or deliver them, so as to enable any other person to utter or employ them as true, he shall, if the number of such notes or pieces of coin in his possession at the same time be ten or more, be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years, and if the number thereof be less than ten, be punished as for a misdemeanor. (Code 1916, c. 146.)

§ 19. Unchartered banks.—All members of any association or company that shall trade or deal as a bank, or carry on banking, without authority of law, and their officers and agents therein, shall be confined in jail not more than six months, and fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. (Code 1916, c. 151.)

$ 20. Unauthorized currency: issuing, passing or receiving.If any person shall, without authority of law, issue any note or other security purporting that money or other thing of value, is payable by or on behalf of such person with intent thereby to create a circulating medium, or shall issue or deliver to any person in his employ or in the employ of any person or company of which he is agent or otherwise, any written, printed or stamped check, ticket or other thing to represent money or to be used in lieu thereof, purporting that money or other thing of value will be paid by such person or company, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and confined in jail not more than six months, and fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars; and the acceptance of any such note, security, check, ticket or other thing, shall not operate as a payment of any debt or claim due or to become due to the person so accepting the same. Provided, That nothing in this section contained, shall be so construed as to prevent the giving of bank checks, promissory notes, single bills, bonds, orders, drafts or bills of exchange in payment of debts or claims due or to become due. (Code 1916, c. 151.)

§ 21. Same: receiving or passing such paper.—If any person not punishable under the provisions of the next preceding section, shall knowingly pass or receive in payment any such note, security, check, ticket or other thing mentioned in said section, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. (Code 1916, c. 151.)

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