350 CEIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

1904, art. 27, sec. 115. 1892, ch. 142, sec. 84A.

126. Any person who shall by any false and fraudulent representa-
tion in writing, signed by him as to his own or his partner's pecuniary
responsibility, wealth or mercantile correspondence or connections,
obtain any loan of money or of property from any person, persons, co-
partnership or corporation and shall thereby defraud such person, per-
sons, copartnership or corporation, or who shall cause or procure
another to make any false and fraudulent representation in writing,
gigned by the person making the same, as to the pecuniary responsi-
bility, wealth or mercantile correspondence, or connections of the per-
son who shall cause or procure such false representation to be made,
or of any other person, and shall thereby obtain any loan of money or
of property from any person, persons, copartnership or corporation,
and shall thereby defraud such person, persons, copartnership or cor-
poration, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof
shall be sentenced to return the money or property so fraudulently
obtained, and shall be fined not exceeding two thousand dollars, or
shall be confined in the jail of the county or the city of Baltimore, as
the case may be, not exceeding one year, or shall be both fined and
imprisoned as aforesaid, in the discretion of the court.

1906, ch. 378.

127. Whenever any loan of money shall be obtained or property pur-
chased by aid of such statement in writing referred to in the preceding
section, and in said statement the party be charged shall state that he
conducts a specific kind of business, and keeps books of account of said
business, then, if at the expiration of any term of credit obtained by
him in so purchasing said property, he shall fail to pay for the same
within sixty days thereafter, he shall at all times during the period of
ninety days subsequent to such failure to pay, upon the request of the
persons from whom said property was purchased, or their agents duly
accredited in writing, produce upon notice of five days his said books

of account, and each and every one of them mentioned or described in

said statement, and permit the persons from whom the said property
was purchased, or their agents duly accredited in writing, to fully
examine such books of account, and each and every one of them men-
tioned or described in said statement, and to make copies of any part
thereof; upon such request being made, failure to produce said books
of account, and each and every one of them mentioned or described in
said statement, shall be presumptive evidence that each and every pre-
tense relating to the purchaser's means or ability to pay in said state-
ment contained were false at the time of making said statement, and
were known to the purchaser to be false.
See article 75, section 99, et seq.