AGENTS AND FACTORS. 191

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the oath to which certificate may be taken before any officer authorized
under the laws of this state to administer the same.

1922, ch. 381, sec. 19.

19. The clerks of the Circuit Courts for the several counties and the
clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City shall each keep a public
docket, to be known as the "Agency Record," wherein shall be recorded all
certificates filed in accordance with the provisions of the preceding section,
properly indexed so as to disclose the name or names of the real owner or
owners of such business and the name, title or designation under which the
same is conducted, and shall charge and receive a fee of one dollar for
recording and indexing such certificates.

1922, ch. 381, sec. 20.

20. If any person or persons, so conducting any such business, as agent
or agents, or in any name or under any title or designation other than in
the real name or names of the true owner or owners thereof, shall fail to
file the certificate provided for in Section 18 of this Article, then and in
that event any person or corporation who shall become a creditor of such
person or persons for money, merchandise or anything of value furnished
or supplied for the use or benefit of such business, shall have the right to
maintain a suit or action in any court, or before any justice of the peace
having jurisdiction against such person or persons, or in the name, title
or designation under which said business is being conducted, and process
in such suit or action when served upon such person or persons so doing
business and in charge thereof, shall entitle such creditor, upon legal proof
of the claim of such creditor, to a judgment, and all of the goods, merchan-
dise, fixtures, machinery, chattels or other property possessed, used or
acquired in the said business shall be liable to seizure and sale under
execution in satisfaction of such judgment and costs; and any such person
who shall knowingly and wilfully execute and file any false certificate shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term
of not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.