370 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

Fraud—Sales of New and Novel Seeds.

1904, art. 27, sec. 168. 1888, art. 27, see. 113. 1888, ch. 415, sec. 1.
186. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, company or
firm, or any agent of any person or persons, company or firm, to sell
or offer for sale or traffic in the State of Maryland any variety of new
or novel seed, such as wheat, oats, corn, rye, clover seed, grass seeds or
other agricultural products, or any variety of the same, claiming or
representing the same to be new, novel or excelling in quality or produc-
tiveness the ordinary seeds or agricultural products in general cultiva-
tion, without first filing with the clerk of the circuit court for the county
in which such sale or sales, or traffic of such seeds, or any of them, or
Other agricultural products is proposed to be made, a written statement
of the kind of seed or agricultural product offered for sale or traffic,
with a full description of the same and the advantages claimed for the
same over other seed or products of the same variety, to which written
statement shall be attached the name and place of residence of the per-
son or persons, company or firm offering for sale or traffic such seeds or
products.

Ibid. sec. 169. 1888, art. 27, sec. 114. 1888, ch. 415, sec. 2.

187. Any person or persons, company, firm or agent violating the
provisions of the foregoing section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof before a justice of the peace, on a warrant to be
issued in the name of the State of Maryland, shall be fined not less than
fifty nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned in the county
jail for not less than three nor more than six months, or be both fined
and imprisoned in the discretion of the justice or the court, if the
accused demand a trial by jury before the circuit court.

Ibid. sec. 170. 1888, art. 27, sec. 115. 1888, ch. 415, sec. 3.

188. Any person or persons, firm or company, offering for barter,
sale or traffic any oats, wheat, rye, corn, clover seed or other agricul-
tural product, representing them or any of them as possessing qualities
or productiveness superior to the same varieties in general cultivation,
and selling the same on credit, or in any way bartering or trafficking in
the same, shall in each and every case state in the note or bill of
exchange taken for the same tie kind or variety of the seed sold or
bartered, with a succinct statement of the advantages or superior quali-
ties claimed for such seed or product, and the terms on which the same
is or are bartered or sold; and the note taken shall contain a general
warranty as to the kind, quality and value of the article sold.

Ibid. sec. 171. 1888, art. 27, sec. 116. 1888, ch. 415, sec. 4.

189. Any person who shall violate either of the provisions of the
foregoing section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
on indictment in the courts of this State having criminal jurisdiction
of the offense shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more
than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned in the penitentiary for not
less than one nor more than five years.