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Forgery of Licence or Badge, or knowingly uttering a forged Licence or Badge, a Misdemeanor.
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LVIII. If any Person shall forge or counterfeit, or shall cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited, or resembled, any Licence or Badge by this Act directed to be provided for each Driver or Conductor as aforesaid, or if any Person shall sell or exchange or expose to Sale, or utter or bestow, any such forged or counterfeited Licence or Badge, or if any Person shall knowingly and without lawful Excuse (the Proof whereof shall lie on the Person accused) have or be possessed of such forged or counterfeited Licence or Badge, knowing such Licence or Badge to be forged or counterfeited, every Person so offending, and every Person knowingly and wilfully aiding, abetting, or assisting any Person committing any such Offence as aforesaid, shall be adjudged guilty of a Misdemeanor, and being thereof convicted shall be punished by Imprisonment in the Common Gaol or House of Correction for a Term not exceeding Two Calendar Months, and either with or without Hard Labour, as the Court shall think fit; and it shall be lawful for any Person to detain any such Licence or Badge, or for any Constable to seize and take away any such Licence or Badge, in order that the same may be produced in Evidence against such Offender, or be disposed of as the said Commissioners shall think proper.
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