418 CEIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

cles, or to take or collect from ash or garbage receptacles, or from
public or private dumps, cellars, yards, lots or premises, or to keep
in stock or otherwise store, or otherwise dispose of, or deal, or traffic
in the same or any thereof, or any parts or pieces of the same or any
thereof, without the written consent of the person, persons, partner-
ship or body corporate, whose name or names or other marks or devices
shall be or shall have been in or upon said kegs, boxes, trays, carriers,
crates, founts, bottles, syphons, jugs, tins, barrels, casks or any other
vessels, or to wilfully break, destroy or otherwise injure any of the
articles mentioned in this section. And any person, persons, partner-
ship or body corporate, who shall do any of the acts declared to be
unlawful by this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished, for the first offense, by
imprisonment of not less than ten days or more than one year, or by
a fine of fifty dollars for each of such founts, three dollars for each
of said kegs, casks or barrels, and one dollar for each of said boxes,
trays, carriers, crates, bottles, syphons, jugs, tins or any other vessels
so unlawfully used, filled, kept on sale, offered for sale, sold, bought,
given, taken, received, handled in the course of business, hired, rented,
lent, transported, carried in wagons, carts, pushcarts, or vehicles of
any kind, or taken or collected from ash or garbage receptacles, or from
public or private dumps, cellars, yards, lots or premises, or kept in
stock, or otherwise stored, or otherwise disposed of, dealt in or trafficked
in; and for the second offense and subsequent offenses, by imprison-
ment for not less than twenty days nor more than one year, or by a
fine of fifty dollars for each of said founts, and not less than two
dollars nor more than five dollars for each of said kegs, casks, barrels,
boxes, trays, carriers, crates, bottles, syphons, jugs, tins or any other
vessels so unlawfully used and filled, kept on sale, offered for sale,
sold, bought, given, taken, received, handled in the course of business,
hired, rented, lent, transported, carried in wagons, carts, pushcarts or
vehicles, of any kind, or taken or collected from ash or garbage recep-
tacles or from public or private dumps, cellars, yards, lots or prem-
ises, or kept in stock or otherwise stored, or otherwise disposed of, dealt
in or trafficked in, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the dis-
cretion of the Court or justice of the peace before whom such offense
is tried. In the event of a fine or fines being imposed by any Court
or justice of the peace for any offenses under Sections 331 to 339, one-
half thereof shall go to the State and one-half to the informer, to be
collected as other fines are collected.

1904, art. 27, sec. 309. 1888, art. 27, sec. 204. 1882, ch. 491, sec. 4. 1892, ch. 262.

1902, ch. 245.

334. If any person shall be found to be in possession of any one
or more of the kegs, boxes, trays, carriers, crates, founts, bottles, syphons,
jugs, tins, barrels, casks or any other vessels mentioned in section 331,
or any part or parts thereof, and the person or persons, partnerships,