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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 107.

AN ACT to add additional sections to Article 18 of the Code

of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Queen Anne's

County," to be known as Section 208A, under a new sub-

title of "Fraud on Livery Stable Keepers," providing for

the punishment of persons hiring horses or vehicles from

livery stable keepers in Queen Anne's County to go a

certain distance and using said horses or vehicles for a

greater distance.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Livery stable

land, That the following additional section be and the same

keepers.

is hereby added to Article 18 of the Code of Public Local Laws

of Maryland, title "Queen Anne's County,'" under a new sub-

title of "Fraud on Livery Stable Keepers," to come in after

Section 208 and to be known as Section 208A.

2o8A. If any person shall hire of any livery stable keeper

Hiring horses

in Queen Anne's County any horse, mare, gelding or vehicle

and vehicles.

of any description whatever to go to any certain place, or

any certain distance, and shall secretly use said horse, mare,

gelding or vehicle for a greater distance, or in going to some

other place with the intent to evade payment for such increased

use. and shall fail or refuse to immediately pay the said livery

stable keeper a reasonable compensation for the additional

use of said horse, mare, gelding or vehicle, which additional

compensation shall be rated in proportion to the increased

distance and use ; such person shall, on conviction before any

justice of the peace of Queen Anne's County, forfeit and pay

a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred

Fines, costs
and imprison-

dollars, and upon failure or refusal to pay said fine and costs

ment.

shall be committed by such justice of the peace to the jail

of Queen Anne's County for a period not exceeding thirty

days; and in case the judgment of the justice of the peace

is against the accused, he shall have the right of appeal to

the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County upon entering

into recognizance with security to be approved by the justice

of the peace, and in every such case the appeal shall be taken

within thirty clays after the date of his conviction.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 18, 1904.