ART. 27] FRAUD. 357

State shall transmit to the consignor thereof a full account of sale,
which shall contain the amount and price of the article so sold, as well
as the name and address of the purchaser thereof; said address shall
give the city, street and number of house or place of business of such
purchaser, and any agent, consignee or commission merchant who shall
refuse or neglect to comply with any provisions of this section shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be pun-
ished by a fine of five dollars for each and every offense, together with
the costs of prosecution.

Fraud—Conversion of Money or Securities.

1904, art. 27, sec. 130. 1888, art. 27, sec. 93. 1867, ch. 386, sec. 2.

144. If any money or security for the payment of money shall be
entrusted to any banker, broker, merchant, attorney or other agent,
with any direction in writing to applv such money or any part thereof,
or the proceeds or any part of the proceeds of such security for any
purpose specified in such direction, and he shall, in violation of good
faith and contrary to the purpose so specified, in anywise convert to
his own use or benefit such money, security or proceeds, or any part
thereof respectively, every such offender shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and being convicted thereof, shall be imprisoned in the peni-
tentiary for a term of not more than ten years nor less than three
years, and be fined not more than five thousand nor less than one
thousand dollars; and if any chattel or valuable security, or any power
of attorney for the sale or transfer of any share or interest, or certifi-
cates of any share or interest in any stock of this or any other State
or of the United States, or of any foreign State, or in any funds or
capital stock of any body corporate, company or society, shall be en-
trusted to any banker, broker, merchant, attorney or other agent, for
safe custody, or for. any special purpose without any authority to sell,
negotiate, transfer or pledge, and he shall, in violation of good faith
and .contrary to the object or purpose for which such chattel or security
or power of attorney shall have been entrusted to him, sell, negotiate,
transfer, pledge or in any manner convert to his own use or benefit
such chattel or security or the proceeds of the same or any part thereof,
or the share or the interest in the stock or fund to which such power
of attorney shall relate, or any part thereof, every such offender shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable
to the punishments which the court may award, as hereinbefore men-
tioned.

As to defaulters, see section 73.

Ibid. sec. 131. 1888, art. 27, sec. 94. 1867, ch. 386, sec. 3.

145. Nothing contained in the preceding section relating to agents
shall affect any trustee in or under any instrument whatever, or any
mortgagee of any property, real or personal, in respect of any act
done by such trustee or mortgagee in relation to the property com-