Every person who, with intent to defraud, shall make any false entry, or shall falsely alter any entry made in any book of accounts kept by any moneyed corporation within this state, or in any book of accounts kept by any corporation or its officers, and to be delivered or intended to be delivered to any person dealing with such corporation, by which any pecuniary obligation, claim, or credit shall be or shall purport to be discharged, diminished, increased, created, or in any manner affected, shall be guilty of forgery.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(35); 1857, ch. 64, art. 119; 1871, § 2583; 1880, § 2829; 1892, § 1108; 1906, § 1189; Hemingway's 1917, § 919; 1930, § 946; 1942, § 2175.
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