942 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 639]

they are hereby re-enacted with amendments, under the sub-title
"Fraud—Gold and Silver," so as to read as follows:

SEC. 184. Any person, firm, corporation or association, who,
or which makes for sale, or sells, or offers for sale or dispose of,
or has in his, her or its possession with intent to sell or dispose
of, any article of merchandise made in whole or in part of gold
or any alloy of gold, and having stamped, branded, engraved or
imprinted thereon, or upon any tag, card or label attached
thereto, or upon any box, package, cover or wrapper in which
said article is encased or enclosed any mark, indicating, or
designed or intended to indicate, that the gold, or alloy of gold,
in such article is of a greater degree of fineness than the actual
fineness or quality of such gold or alloy, unless the actual
fineness of such gold or alloy, in the case of flat ware and watch
cases, be not less by more than three one-thousandths parts, and
in the case of all other articles be not less by more than one-
"half karat than the fineness indicated by the marks stamped,
'branded, engraved or imprinted upon any part of such article,
or upon any tag, card or label attached thereto, or upon any
box, package, cover or wrapper in which such article is encased
or enclosed according to the standards and subject to the quali-
fications hereinafter set forth, is guilty of a misdemeanor;
provided that, in any test for the ascertainment of the fineness
of the gold or its alloy in any such article, according to the
foregoing standards, the part of the gold or of its alloy taken
for the test, analysis or assay shall be such part or portion as
does not contain or have attached thereto any solder or alloy of
inferior fineness used for brazing or uniting the parts of said
article; provided, further, and in addition to the foregoing
teats and standards, that the actual fineness of the entire quan-
tity of gold and of its alloys contained in any article mentioned
in this section (except watch cases and flat ware), including all
solder or alloy of inferior metal used for brazing or uniting
the parts of the article (all such gold, alloys and solder being
assayed as one piece) shall not be less by more than one karat,
than the fineness indicated by the mark stamped, branded,
engraved or imprinted upon such article, or upon any tag, card
or label attached thereto, or upon any box, package, cover or
wrapper in which said article is encased or enclosed.

SP:C. 185. Any person, firm, corporation or association, who
or which makes for sale, or sells, or offers to sell or dispose of,
or has in his, her or its possession with intent to sell or dispose
of, any article of merchandise made in whole or in part of
silver or of any alloy of silver and having marked, stamped,
branded, engraved or imprinted thereon, or upon any tag,