344 CHIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

viction thereof the person so offending shall be sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for not less than eighteen months nor more than fifteen years.
Cited but not construed in Dick v. State, 107 Md. 22.

1904, art. 27, sec. 102. 1888, art. 27, sec. 74. 1860, art. 30, sec. 4S.
1820, ch. 162, sec. 1.

111. If any president or director of any bank chartered by the
laws of this State shall fraudulently embezzle, secrete or make way
with any money, goods, bill, note, bond, check, evidence of debt or
Other valuable security or effects belonging to such bank, every such
offender, his adviser, procurer, aider or abettor shall be deemed guilty
of felony, and on conviction thereof shall be sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for not less than five nor more than fifteen years.

Ibid. sec. 103. 1888, art. 27, sec. 75. 1860, art. 30, sec. 49. 1820, ch. 162,
sec. 2. 1880, ch. 458. 1886, ch. 310. 1914, ch. 329.

112. Whosoever being a cashier, servant, agent, or clerk to any per-
son, or whosoever being a cashier, servant, agent, officer, or clerk to
any body corporate, or being employed for the purpose or in the capac-
ity of a cashier, servant, agent, officer or clerk, by any person or body
corporate shall fraudulently embezzle any money, goods, bill, note,
bond, check, evidence or* debt, or other valuable security or effects
which, or any part whereof, shall be delivered to or received, or taken
into possession by him, for or in the name or on account of his master
or employer, shall be deemed to have feloniously stolen the same from
his master or employer, although such money, goods; bill, note, bond,
check, evidence of debt, or other valuable security or effects was not
received into the possession of such master or employer, otherwise
than by the actual possession of his cashier, servant, agent, officer,
clerk or other person so employed, a'nd being convicted thereof, shall
be punished by imprisonment in the jail or house of correction, for
not more than three years, or in the penitentiary for not more than
fifteen years,+ in every indictment for a violation of this Section,
when the offense shall relate to coin or notes circulating as money, it
shall be sufficient to allege the embezzlement to be of money, without
specifying any particular coin or notes circulating as money; and such
allegation, so far as regards the description of the property, shall be
sustained if the offender shall be proved to have embezzled any amount
of coin or notes circulating as money, although the particular species
of coin or notes circulating as money, of which such amount was com-
posed, shall not be proved. ++

In an indictement of a clerk to the county commissioners under this sec-
tion, a tax bill on which was written "Received payment, W. D., Collector,
per J. A. D., Clerk, County Commissioners," is evidence. Embezzlement by
a clerk to the county commissioners is within the scope of this section. It

*Probably a typographical error in the act.
+The punctuation of this line is just as it appears in the act.
++The notes to this section are based on the statute as it stood prior to the act
of 1914, ch. 329.