Section 14. In prosecutions for forging or counterfeiting notes or bills of the banks or institutions before mentioned, or for uttering, publishing or tendering in payment as true forged or counterfeit bank bills or notes, or for being possessed thereof with intent to utter and pass the same as true, the testimony of the president and cashier of any such bank may be dispensed with, if their place of residence is out of the commonwealth or more than forty miles from the place of trial; and the testimony of any person acquainted with the signature of such president or cashier, or who has knowledge of the difference in the appearance of the true and the counterfeit bills or notes of such banks, may be admitted to prove that such bills or notes are counterfeit.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases
Title I - Crimes and Punishments
Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency
Section 1 - False or Forged Records, Certificates, Returns, Attestations and Other Writings
Section 2 - Railroad or Admission Tickets, Passes or Badges
Section 3 - Seal of Land Court; Stamping Documents Without Authority
Section 4 - Railroad Company Stamp; Forging or Using Without Authority
Section 5 - Uttering False or Forged Records, Deeds or Other Writings
Section 6 - Uttering a Forged Railroad or Admission Ticket, Pass or Badge
Section 8 - False, Forged or Counterfeited Bank Bill, Note or Traveller's Check
Section 9 - Possession of Ten or More of False, Forged or Counterfeited Notes or Bills
Section 11 - Common Utterers of Counterfeit Bills
Section 12 - Possession of False, Forged or Counterfeit Bills, Notes or Traveller's Checks
Section 14 - Evidence Relative to Forged or Counterfeited Bank or Institution Bills or Notes
Section 16 - Fictitious Signatures of Corporate Officers or Agents
Section 17 - Counterfeiting Coin; Possession of Ten or More Pieces of False Money
Section 19 - Common Utterers of Counterfeit Coin
Section 20 - Tools for Making Counterfeit Coin
Section 21 - Notes, Bills, Orders or Checks as Currency
Section 22 - Notes, Bills, Orders or Checks for Less Than Five Dollars, as Currency
Section 23 - Bank Notes or Bills for a Fraction of a Dollar
Section 24 - Connecting Parts of Instruments
Section 25 - Damaging or Impairing Bank Bills or Notes
Section 26 - Gathering or Retaining Bank Bills or Notes
Section 27 - Possession of Worthless Bank Bills or Notes
Section 28 - Uttering, Passing or Tendering Worthless Bank Bills or Notes