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The Maryland Code : Public General Laws and Public Local Laws, 1860
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ART. 30.] CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 237

without such license or publication, each of the said parties, on
conviction, shall be fined one hundred dollars.

132. If any minister shall marry any person without such
license or publication, on conviction thereof, he shall be fined
one hundred dollars.

133. If any minister shall knowingly join in marriage any
male under the age of twenty-one years, or any female under
the age of sixteen years, and not before married, without the
consent of the parent or guardian of every such person, per-
sonally given or signified under the hand and seal of the said
parent or guardian, and attested by two witnesses, he shall, on
conviction, be fined fifteen hundred dollars.

MILLERS MIXING FLOUR.

134. No master, owner, miller, or other person properly be-
longing to or otherwise owning any mill within this State, shall
ask, demand, or receive for grinding any quantity of wheat,
Indian corn, or rye, above one-eighth part of every bushel of
wheat, Indian corn, or rye, by him so ground as aforesaid, under
the penalty of fifty dollars for every offence, one-half to the use
of the State, and the other half to the informer, to be recovered
in the name of the State, by action of debt, before any justice
of the peace, as other small debts are recoverable. In St. Mary's,
Somerset and Worcester counties, the sixth may be taken for
grinding rye and corn.

135. If any person shall mix, or cause to be mixed, any corn
meal or other flour with wheat flour, for the purpose of selling
or otherwise disposing of the same as wheat flour, or shall send
the same out of the State for the purpose, or with the intent, of
selling or otherwise disposing of it, he, on conviction thereof,
shall forfeit and pay for each and every such offence, a sum not
less than two hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dol-
lars, one-half to the informer and the other half to the State.
And in case such offender shall be unable to pay the same, he
shall suffer not less than three nor more than twelve months' im-
prisonment, in the discretion of the court.

186. It shall be the duty of every magistrate before whom any
information may be lodged, and proof made, of any violation of
the preceding section, to issue his warrant to any constable of

 

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