328 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

1904, art. 27, sec. 50. 1888, art. 27, sec. 41. 1860, art. 30, sec. 33.
1789, ch. 26, sec. 36. 1801, ch. 63, sec. 10.

56. If any person shall forge or counterfeit any manifest or note of
any inspector of tobacco, or alter the quantity or quality of tobacco
expressed in such manifest or note, or shall offer or cause to be offered
in payment, any such forged, counterfeited, or altered manifest or note,
knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited or altered, and shall be
thereof convicted, he shall be fined in any sum not exceeding three hun-
dred dollars, or sentenced to the penitentiary for any term not less than
eighteen months nor more than seven years, or both, in the discretion
of the court.

Ibid. sec. 51. 1888, art. 27, sec. 42. 1860, art. 30, sec. 34. 1789, ch. 26, sec. 37.

1867, ch. 56.

57. If any person shall export, or cause to be exported, any hogs-
head of tobacco marked with a forged or counterfeited mark, or demand
tobacco of any inspector upon any forged, counterfeited or altered mani-
fest or note, knowing such manifest or note, or such mark, to be forged,
counterfeited or altered, he shall be sentenced to the penitentiary not
exceeding seven years nor less than eighteen months, or be fined not
exceeding three hundred dollars, or both of them, in the discretion of
the court; and if any person shall put or pack any tobacco into any
hogshead marked by any inspector, in lieu of tobacco inspected, or shall
draw or take out any stave, plank or heading board of any hogshead of
tobacco, after it shall be delivered out from any public warehouse, unless
it be for the purpose of examining the quality of tobacco by a person
intending to purchase the same, upon conviction thereof he shall be
fined a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.

Ibid. sec. 52. 1888, art. 27, sec. 43. 1860, art. 30, sec. 35. 1789, ch. 26, secs. 18, 31.

58. The inspectors of tobacco in this State shall brand with a hob-
iron on every hogshead of tobacco inspected by them the name of the
State wherein the tobacco was raised: and if any person shall rub out
or deface any such brand on any hogshead of tobacco, with a view of
changing the same, or shall falsely mark or brand any hogshead con-
trary to the provisions of this section, upon conviction thereof, he shall
suffer a confinement in the penitentiary for not less than six months nor
more than two years.

Ibid. sec. 53. 1888, art. 27, sec. 44. 1860, art. 30, sec. 36. 1827, ch. 91, sec. 4.

59. Any person breaking any hogshead of tobacco with the word
Maryland 011 the bilge, or any other part of a. hogshead, with intent to
evade the provisions of the laws relating to the inspection of tobacco
shall be deemed guilty of felony and upon conviction thereof shall
undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for not less than two nor
more than four years.

Ibid. sec. 54. 1888, art. 27, sec. 45. 1860, art. 30, sec. 37. 1821, chs. 150, 204.

1834, ch. 279, sec. 2.

60. If any person shall forge or counterfeit any certificate of the
stock of this State, or any letter of attorney for the transfer thereof, or