persons violating any of the foregoing provisions of this act, to recover all damages, immediate or consequential, which he or they may have sustained by reason of any such violation as aforesaid, before any court of competent jurisdiction, whether such person shall have been convicted as a cheat under this act or not.
AN ACT TO PUNISH THE FRAUDULENT ISSUE AND TRANSFER OF STOCK IN CORPORATIONS.
Of fraudulent issue and transfer of stock by officers of corporations. Penalty.Sect. 246. That every president, cashier, treasurer, secretary, or other officer, and every agent of any bank, railroad, manufacturing, or other corporation, who shall wilfully and designedly sign, with intent to issue, sell, pledge, or cause to be issued, sold, or pledged, any false, fraudulent, or semi-related certificate or other evidence of the ownership or transfer of any share or shares of the capital stock of such corporation, or any instrument purporting to be a certificate or other evidence of such ownership or transfer, for the signing, issuing, selling, or pledging of which such president, cashier, treasurer, or other officer or agent, shall not be authorized by the charter and by-laws of such corporations, or by some amendment thereof, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and every such person or persons shall be liable to indictment, and on conviction, shall be punished by fine, not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment in the penitentiary not more than ten years, as the jury shall determine.
Same.Sect. 247. That every president, cashier, treasurer, secretary, or other officer, and every agent, attorney, servant, or employee of any bank, railroad, manufacturing or other corporation, and every other person who shall knowingly and designedly, and with intent to defraud any person or persons, bank, railroad, manufacturing or other corporation, issue, sell, transfer, assign, or pledge, or cause or procure to be issued, sold, transferred, assigned, or pledged any false, fraudulent, or semi-related certificate or other evidence of ownership, of any share or shares of the capital stock of any bank, railroad, manufacturing or other corporation, every such person so issuing, selling, transferring, assigning or pledging, or causing the same to be done, shall be adjudged to be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to indictment, and on conviction,
