Section 26. Whoever maliciously gathers up or retains or maliciously aids in gathering up or retaining bills or notes of a bank or banking company, current by law or usage in the commonwealth, for the purpose of injuring or impeding the circulation or business of such bank or banking company, or of compelling it to do any act out of the usual course of its business, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two years; and in the prosecution of any such crime it shall not be necessary to set out and describe each bill, but it shall be sufficient to aver and prove any amount of the bills of any bank which have been so gathered up or retained.
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