ART. 30.] CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 217

return, record, or parcel of the same, within this State, whereby
the estate or right of any person shall or may be defeated, in-
jured or any way altered, shall be sentenced to the penitentiary
for not less than three nor more than seven years.

47. If any person to whom a will or codicil shall be delivered
by the party making it for safe custody, shall destroy the same
without the direction of the said party, or wilfully secrete it for
the space of six months after the death of the party shall be
known to him, on conviction thereof the person so offending
shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than eighteen
months nor more than fifteen years.

48. If any president or director of any bank chartered by the
laws of this State, shall fraudulently embezzle, secrete, or make
way with any money, goods, bill, note, bond, check, evidence of
debt, or other valuable security or effects belonging to such bank,
every such offender, his adviser, procurer, aider or abettor, shall
be deemed guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof shall be
sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than five nor more than
fifteen years.

49. If any cashier, servant, agent or clerk, or any person
employed for the purpose or in the capacity of cashier, servant,
agent or clerk to any person or to any body corporate, shall by
virtue of such employment, receive or take into his possession
any money, goods, bill, note, bond, check, evidence of debt, or
other valuable security or effects, for and in the name or on
account of his employer, and shall fraudulently embezzle, secrete,
or make way with the same, or any part thereof, he shall be
deemed guilty of having feloniously stolen the same from his
employer, for whose use or in whose name or on whose account
the same was or were delivered to or taken into the possession
of such cashier, servant, clerk, or other person employed,
although such money, goods, bill, bond, note, check, evidence of
debt, or other valuable security or effects was or were not other-
wise received into the possession of such employer than by the
actual possession of his cashier, servant or clerk, or other person
so employed, and every such offender, his adviser, aider, pro-
curer or abettor shall, on conviction thereof, be sentenced to the
penitentiary for not less than five nor more than fifteen years.

50. Any person holding office in this State, whether elected or
appointed by the Governor, by the corporate authorities of Balti-