Sec. 556. Every person who, with intent to defraud, falsely alters, destroys, corrupts or falsifies:
1. Any record of any will, codicil, conveyance or other instrument, the record of which is, by law, evidence; or,
2. Any record of any judgment in a court of record, or any enrollment of any decree of a court of equity; or,
3. The return of any officer, court or tribunal to any process of any court,
Is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
Sec. 557. Every person who, with intent to defraud, falsely makes, forges or alters any entry in any book of records, or any instrument purporting to be any record or return, specified in the last section, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
Sec. 553. Ii any officer authorized to take the acknowledgment or proof of any conveyance of real estate, or of any other instrument which by law may be recorded, knowingly and falsely certifies that any such conveyance or instrument was acknowledged by any party thereto, or was proved by any subscribing witness, when in truth such conveyance or instrument was not acknowledged or proved as certified, he is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
Sec. 559. Every person who makes or engraves, or causes or procures to be made or engraved, any plate in the form or similitude of any promissory note, bill of exchange, draft, check, certificate of deposit or other evidence of debt, issued by any banking corporation or association, or individual banker, incorporated or carrying on business under the laws of this territory or of any other state, government or country, without the authority of such bank; or has or keeps in his custody or possession any such plate, without the authority of such bank, with intent to use or permit the same to be used for the purpose of taking therefrom any impression, to be passed, sold or altered; or has or keeps in his custody or possession, without the authority of such bank, any impression taken from any such plate, with intent to have the same filled up and completed for the purpose of being passed, sold or altered; or makes or causes to be made, or has in his custody or possession, any plate upon which are engraved any figures, or words, which may be used
