374 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

State of Maryland, any horse, mare or gelding, colt or filly under an
assumed name, or out of its proper class when such prize, purse, pre-
mium, stake or sweepstake is to be decided by a contest in trotting
races.

1904, art. 27, sec. 183. 1892, ch. 419, sec. 5.

201. Any person or persons found guilty of a violation of section
200 shall, upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the penitentiary
for not less than one year nor more than three years, or imprisoned in
the jail of the county or the city of Baltimore, as the case may be, in
which the offense was committed, for any definite period, not less than
six months, and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand
dollars.

Fraud—Gold and Silver.

Ibid. sec. 184. 1900, ch. 398, sec. 1190. 1912, ch. 639.

202. Any person, firm, corporation or association, who, or which
makes for sale, or sells, or offers for sale or dispose of, or has in his,
her or its possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article of
merchandise made in whole or in part of gold or any alloy of gold,
and having stamped, branded, engraved or imprinted thereon, or upon
any tag, card or label attached thereto, or upon any box, package,
cover or wrapper in which said article is encased or enclosed any
mark, indicating, or designed or intended to indicate, that the gold,
or alloy of gold, in such article is of a greater degree of fineness than
the actual fineness or quality of such gold or alloy, unless the actual
fineness of such gold or alloy, in the case of flat ware and watch cases,
be not less by more than three one-thousandths parts, and in the case
of all other articles be not less by more than one-half karat than the
fineness indicated by the marks stamped, branded, engraved or im-
printed upon any part of such article, or upon any tag, card or label
attached thereto, or upon any box, package, cover or wrapper in which
such article is encased or enclosed according to the standards and sub-
ject to the qualifications hereinafter set forth, is guilty of a misde-
meanor ; provided that, in any test for the ascertainment of the fineness
of the gold or its alloy in any such article, according to the foregoing
standards, the part of the gold or of its alloy taken for the test, analysis
or assay shall be such part or portion as does not contain or have
attached thereto any solder or alloy of inferior fineness used for braz-
ing or uniting the parts of said article; provided, further, and in addi-
tion to the foregoing tests and standards, that the actual fineness of the.
entire quantity of gold and of its alloys contained in any article men-
tioned in this section (except watch cases and flat ware), including all
solder or alloy of inferior metal used for brazing or uniting the parts
of the article (all such gold, alloys and solder being assayed as one
piece) shall not be less by more than one karat, than the fineness indi-
cated by the mark stamped, branded, engraved or imprinted upon such
article, or upon any tag, card or label attached thereto, or upon any