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box, market box or bushel box used as a container of farm or garden pro-
duce, when such box, garden box, market box or bushel box is stamped,
stenciled, or marked in plain letters with the name of the owner or owners
thereof, unless such person, persons, firm or corporation using or having
the same in his, her or its possession, shall first have obtained the express
privilege or permission of the owner or owners of such bushel box, market
box or garden box, or from his, her or their duly authorized agent or agents,
to use or have in his, her or its possession such bushel box, market box or
garden box as aforesaid. Any person, persons, firm or corporation violating
the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the several counties of
this State or the city of Baltimore, shall be fined not more than twenty-five
dollars for each such offense.

Fraud—Millers Mixing Flour.

An. Code, sec. 181. 1904, sec. 163. 1888, sec. 108. 1704, ch. 16, sec. 6. 1816, ch. 76.

1878, ch. 375. 1880, ch. 9.

207. 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 informer, 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 he taken for grinding rye and corn.

An. Code, sec. 182. 1904, sec. 164. 1888, sec. 109. 1805, ch. 82, sec. 1.

208. 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 dispos-
ing 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 disposing 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' imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

An. Code, sec. 183. 1904, sec. 165. 1888, sec. 110. 1805, ch. 82, sec. 2.

209. It shall be the duty of every justice of the peace before whom any
information may he lodged and proof made of any violation of the pre-
ceding 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.