JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

465

5. No person or corporation, or agent or officer

of any person or corporation in this State, shall

Not to issue

issue any bill of lading, receipt, acknowledgment or

bill of lading

voucher whatsoever, for goods, chattels or com-

modities of any kind to be transported on land or

water, or on both, or any receipt, acceptance of an

order or other voucher for goods, chattels or com-

modities, as on storage or deposit in this State,

until and unless the whole of the said goods, chattels

and commodities shall have been actually received

Received and

to be transported by such person or corporation in

in possession.

the one case, or shall be actually in the possession

or custody, or upon the premises, or under the

absolute and exclusive control of such person or

corporation in the other case at the time when such

instrument shall be issued; and any principal per-

son or corporation, or any agent or officer whatso-

ever, of any person or corporation, wilfully violating

Penalty.

the provisions or any provisions of this section, shall

be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction

thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not less than

one thousand nor more than tive thousand dollars,

in the discretion of the court.

6. No warehouseman or corporation or person

whatsoever having issued or caused to be issued or

Not to issue

having outstanding, and issued by any agent or

until returned

officer of such person or corporation as aforesaid,

any receipt, acceptance of order or other voucher

for goods, chattels or commodities as on deposit or

storage with or in the custody or on the premises,

or under the control of such person or corporation,

shall issue any other receipt, acceptance of order or

other voucher whatsoever for the same, or any part

thereof until the said first issued instrument shall

have been returned and cancelled or destroyed, and

no person or corporation whatsoever having issued

or having outstanding as aforesaid, any such receipt,

acceptance of order or other voucher aforesaid, and

no agent or officer of any such person or corporation

shall part with, deliver or remove or permit to be

delivered or removed, the goods, chattels or com-

Deliver or re-

modities in such instrument named or described, or

move.

any part thereof, except only to or by the holder of

said instrument, or upon his order, and upon the

30