Chapter IV - Forgers of Documents, Signatures, and Seals

1 If someone should forge a charter of the Sovereign, or the Sovereign's signature on a charter, or if he should alter anything on an official document without the Sovereign's authorisation, or the approval of either the boiars, or members of the boiarskaia duma, or of lesser officials, and forge the signature of a clerk, or if someone should make for himself a seal similar to the Sovereign's seal, such individual, upon investigation, should be executed for such crimes.