368 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

Fraud—Millers Mixing Flour.

1904, art. 27, sec. 163. 1888, art. 27, sec. 108. 1860, art. 30, sec. 134. 1704, ch. 16,
sec. 6. 1816, ch. 76. 1878, ch 375, 1880, ch. 9.

181. No master, owner, miller or other person properly belonging
to or otherwise owning, any mill within this State shall ask, demand or
receive for grinding any quantity of wheat, Indian corn or rye above
one-eighth part of every bushel of wheat, Indian corn or rye by him so
ground as aforesaid, under the penalty of fifty dollars for every such
offense, one-half to the use of the State and the other half to the in-
former, to be recovered in .the name of the State by action of debt before
any justice of the peace as other small debts are recoverable. In St.
Mary's, Wicomico, Somerset and Worcester counties, the sixth may be
taken for grinding rye and corn.

Ibid. sec. 164. 1888, art. 27, sec. 109. 1860, art. 30, sec. 135. 1805, ch. 82, sec. 1..

182. If any person shall mix, or cause to be mixed, any corn meal
or other flour with wheat flour, for the purpose of selling or otherwise
disposing of the same as wheat flour, or shall send the same out of the
State for the purpose, or with the intent of selling or otherwise dispos-
ing of it, he, on conviction thereof, shall forfeit and pay for each and
every such offense a sum not less than two hundred dollars, nor more
than one thousand dollars, one-half to the informer and the other half
to the State. And in case such offender shall be unable to pay the same,
he shall suffer not less than three nor more than twelve months' im-
prisonment, in the discretion of the court.

Ibid. sec. 165. 1888, art. 27, sec. 110. 1860, art. 30, sec. 136. 1805, ch. 82, sec. 2.

183. It shall be the duty of every justice of the peace before whom
any information may be lodged and proof made of any violation of the
preceding section to issue his warrant to any constable of the county in
which the same shall be committed commanding him to bring such
offender before him, or any other justice of the peace for said county
who shall recognize him in the sum of two thousand dollars, with good
and sufficient security; or in case of neglect or refusal, then to commit
such offender to prison to take his trial at the next term of the circuit
court for the county.

Fraud by Mortgagors of Personal Property.

Ibid. sec. 166. 1888, art. 27, sec. 111. 1884, ch. 202. 1888, ch. 193. 1894, ch. 315.

184. Any mortgagor of personal property in possession of the same,
or any purchaser of personal property under an unrecorded, condi-
tional, written contract, in possession of said property, or any execution
debtor in possession of personal property levied on and taken in execu-
tion, who, in the case of mortgaged personal property, without the con-
sent of the mortgagee or his assigns, first had and obtained in writing,
or who, in the case of the purchaser of personal property under an
unrecorded, conditional, written contract, without the consent first had
and obtained in writing of the conditional vendor in said contract, or