990 ARTICLE 27.

An. Code, sec. 57. 1904, sec. 51. 1888, see. 42. 1789, ch. 26, sec. 37. 1867, ch. 56.

60. If any person shall export, or cause to be exported, any hogshead
of tobacco marked with a forged or counterfeited mark, or demand tobacco
of any inspector upon any forged, counterfeited or altered manifest or
note, knowing such manifest or note, or such mark, to be forged, counter-
feited or altered, he shall be sentenced to the penitentiary not exceeding
seven years nor less than eighteen months, or be fined not exceeding three
hundred dollars, or both of them, in the discretion of the court; and if any
person shall put or pack any tobacco into any hogshead marked by any
inspector, in lieu of tobacco inspected, or shall draw or take out any stave,
plank or heading board of any hogshead of tobacco, after it shall be de-
livered out from any public warehouse, unless it be for the purpose of
examining the quality of tobacco by a person intending to purchase the
same, upon conviction thereof he shall be fined a sum not exceeding one
hundred dollars.

An. Code, sec. 58. 1904, sec. 52. 1888, sec. 43. 1789, ch. 26, secs. 18, 31.

61. The inspectors of tobacco in this State shall brand with a hob-
iron on every hogshead of tobacco inspected by them the name of the State
wherein the tobacco was raised; and if any person shall rub out or deface
any such brand on any hogshead of tobacco, with a view of changing the
same, or shall falsely mark or brand any hogshead contrary to the pro-
visions of this section, upon conviction thereof, he shall suffer a confine-
ment in the penitentiary for not less than six months nor more than two
years.

An. Code, sec. 59. 1904, sec. 53. 1888, sec. 44. 1827, ch. 91, sec. 4.

62. Any person breaking any hogshead of tobacco with the word Mary-
land on the bilge, or any other part of a hogshead, with intent to evade
the provisions of the laws relating to the inspection of tobacco shall be
deemed guilty of felony and upon conviction thereof shall undergo a con-
finement in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than four years.

An. Code, sec. 60. 1904, sec. 54. 1888, sec. 45. 1821, chs. 150, 204. 1834, ch. 279, sec. 2.

63. If any person shall forge or counterfeit any certificate of the stock
of this State, or any letter of attorney for the transfer thereof, or shall
forge or counterfeit any such certificate with the intent of putting the same
in circulation, on conviction thereof he shall be sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for not less than two nor more than ten years.

An. Code, sec. 61. 1904, sec. 55. 1888, sec. 46. 1882, ch. 240.

64. If any person shall falsely make, alter, forge or counterfeit, or
cause or procure to be falsely made, altered, forged or counterfeited, or
shall willingly aid or assist in falsely making, altering, forging or coun-
terfeiting, or shall utter or pass, knowing it to be falsely made, altered,
forged, or counterfeited, any metallic check, card or other substance or
device used or intended to be used by any person engaged in hermeti-
cally sealing or canning fruits, vegetables or other articles of food in this