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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 136.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 18 of the Code

of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Wicomico County,"

to be known as Section 2o8A, under a new sub-title of

"Fraud on Livery Stable Keepers," providing for the pun-

ishment of persons hiring horses or vehicles from livery

stable keepers in Wicomico 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-

An additional

land, That the following additional section be and the same

section.

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

Laws of Maryland, title "Wicomico County," under a new

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

Section 208, and to be known as Section 2o8A.

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

Driving a

in Wicomico County any horse, mare, gelding or vehicle of

horse beyond

certain

any description whatsoever to go to any certain place, or any

limits.

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 Wicomico County, forfeit and pay a

fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dol-

lars, and upon failure or refusal to pay said fine and costs shall

be committed by such justice of the peace to the jail of Wicom-

ico 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 Wi-

Penalty for
doing so.

comico 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 days 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.