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The 191st General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Section 5: Uttering false or forged records, deeds or other writings

Section 5. Whoever, with intent to injure or defraud, utters and publishes as true a false, forged or altered record, deed, instrument or other writing mentioned in the four preceding sections, knowing the same to be false, forged or altered, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or in jail for not more than two years.