1010 ARTICLE 27.

An. Code, sec. 110. 1904, sec. 101. 1888, sec. 73. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 2, sec. 1.

127. If any person to whom a will or codicil shall be delivered by the
party making it for safe custody shall destroy the same without the direc-
tion of the said party, or wilfully secrete it for the space of six months
after the death of the party shall be known to him, on conviction thereof
the person so offending shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less
than eighteen months nor more than fifteen years.

Cited but not construed in Dick v. State, 107 Md. 22.

An. Code, sec. 111. 1904, sec. 102. 1888, sec. 74. 1820, ch. 162, sec. 1.

128. If any president or director of any bank chartered by the laws
of this State shall fraudulently embezzle, secrete or make way with any
money, goods, bill, note, bond, check, evidence of debt or other valuable
security or effects belonging to such bank, every such offender, his adviser,
procurer, aider or abettor shall be deemed guilty of felony, and on convic-
tion thereof shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than five
nor more than fifteen years.

An. Code, sec. 112. 1904, sec. 103. 1888, sec. 75. 1820, ch. 162, sec. 2. 1880, ch. 458.
1886, ch. 310. 1914, ch. 329.

129. Whosoever being a cashier, servant, agent, or clerk to any per-
son, or whosoever being a cashier, servant, agent, officer, or clerk to any
body corporate, or being employed for the purpose or in the capacity of a
cashier, servant, agent, officer or clerk, by any person or body corporate
shall fraudulently embezzle any money, goods, bill, note, bond, check,
evidence or1 debt, or other valuable security or effects which, or any part
whereof, shall be delivered to or received, or taken into possession by him,
for or in the name or on account of his master or employer, shall be
deemed to have feloniously stolen the same from his master or employer,
although such money, goods, bill, note, bond, check, evidence of debt, or
other valuable security or effects was not received into the possession of
such master or employer, otherwise than by the actual possession of his
cashier, servant, agent, officer, clerk or other person so employed, and being
convicted thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the jail or house
of correction, for not more than three years, or in the penitentiary for not
more than fifteen years,2 in every indictment for a violation of this Sec-
tion, when the offense shall relate to coin or notes circulating as money, it
shall be sufficient to allege the embezzlement to be of money, without speci-
fying any particular coin or notes circulating as money; and such allega-
tion, so far as regards the description of the property, shall be sustained if
the offender shall be proved to have embezzled any amount of coin or notes
circulating as money, although the particular species of coin or notes cir-
culating as money, of which such amount was composed, shall not be proved.

Where agent of a piano company collected and failed to report money belonging
to company, not off-set by compensation due him, and such money was not treated
by company as an ordinary debt, the case presents every indication of embezzlement
Jordan v. Piano Co., 140 Md. 212.

1 Probably a typographical error in the act.

2 The punctuation of this line is just as it appears in the act.