LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1822.

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order contain a simple request to pay the said money, or deliver
the said goods or other valuable articles, or not, with the inten-
tion to defraud any person, and being thereof convicted, in any
court of law within this state, he or they shall be adjudged a
felon, and be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the peni-
tentiary house of this state, for a period of time not less than
six months, and not more than three years.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all such part or parts of an
act of assembly, entitled, an act for the more effectual prevent-
ing of forgery, and to make it felony to steal bonds, notes, or
other securities for the payment of money, as are inconsistent
with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby
repealed.

Repeal.

CHAPTER 172.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to regulate the
Inspection of Tobacco.

* 1821, ch.
194.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That nothing contained in the act, entitled, a further supple-
ment to the act, entitled, an act to regulate the inspection of
tobacco, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
twenty-one, chapter one hundred and ninety-four, shall be con-
strued to authorize the inspectors of tobacco in this state, to
retain in their possession any samples they may draw under the
provisions of said act, without the assent of the owners thereof
or their agents.

Former act
modified.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That all such parts of the act
aforesaid, which makes it the duty of the inspectors to attend
once in each of the months of April, May, June, July, August,
September, October and November, in every year for shewing
the said samples to dealers, on such days as the respective levy
courts shall appoint, and which directs notice of such meetings
to be published in as many newspapers in the District of Co-
lumbia and Baltimore as may be deemed necessary to give
information of such meetings, be and the same are hereby
repealed.

Former acts
repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the act,
entitled, a further supplement to the act entitled, an act to regu-
late the inspection of tobacco, passed at December session, eigh-
teen and twenty-one, chapter one hundred and ninety-four, as
are not repealed by this act, be and the same are hereby extended
to Charles and St. Mary's counties, to be of full force and effect
in said counties.

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Charles and
St. Mary's
counties.