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AN ACT to repeal Section thirty-four of Article
thirty, of the Code of Public General Laws,
title "Crimes and Punishments," sub-title
"Counterfeiting and Forgery," and relating to
inspected and uninspected Tobacco, and to re-
enact the same with an amendment. |
Passed Feb.
26,1867. |
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That section thirty-four of Article
thirty of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Crimes and Punishments," sub-title "Counter-
feiting and Forgery," and which punishes by
whipping any servant or slave who shall place in
any hogshead of inspected or uninspected Tobacco,
be, and the same is hereby amended and re-enact-
ed so as to read as follows : |
Sections a-
mended and re-
enacted. |
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Sec. 34. If any person shall export or cause to
be exported, any hogshead of Tobacco marked
with a forged or counterfeited mark, or demand
Tobacco of any inspector upon any forged, coun-
terfeited or altered manifest or note, knowing such
manifest or note, or such mark, to be forged, coun-
terfeited or altered, he shall be sentenced to the
Penitentiary not exceeding seven years nor less
than eighteen months, or be fined not exceeding
three hundred dollars, or both of them in the dis-
cretion of the Court; and if any person shall put
or pack any Tobacco into any hogshead marked
by any inspector, in lieu of Tobacco inspected, or
shall draw or take out any stave, plank or heading
board of any hogshead of Tobacco, after it shall
be delivered out from any public ware-house un-
less it be for the purpose of examining the quality
of Tobacco by a person intending to purchase the
same, upon conviction thereof, he shall be fined a
sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and in all
such cases, the testimony of the inspector may be
admitted as evidence. |
Penalty for
counterfeiting
mark of In-
spector, |
