Change bills - Emitting as money.

Any officer or agent of any private corporation or association or any other person who makes, emits, signs or countersigns, or causes or procures to be made, emitted, signed or countersigned, without authority of law, any paper to answer the purpose of money, or for general circulation, shall, on conviction, be fined not more than $500.00 and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than one year.

(Code 1852, §101; Code 1867, §3643; Code 1876, §4433; Code 1886, §4143; Code 1896, §5546; Code 1907, §6426; Code 1923, §3492; Code 1940, T. 14, §93; Code 1975, §13-4-6.)