1112 ARTICLE 27

An. Code, 1924, sec. 58. 1912, sec. 55. 1904, sec. 49. 1892, ch. 357, sec. 6.

59. Any person or persons who shall in any way use the name or seal
of any such person, association or union, or officer thereof, in and about
the sale of goods or otherwise, not being authorized to so use the same, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished on conviction by imprison-
ment in the city or county jail for a term of not less than three months nor
more than one year, or by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than
three hundred dollars, or both, in the discretion of the court.
See notes to sec. 54.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 59. 1912, sec. 56. 1904, sec. 50. 1888, sec. 41. 1789, ch. 26, sec. 36.

1801, ch. 63, sec. 10.

60. If any person shall forge or counterfeit any manifest or note of
any inspector of tobacco, or alter the quantity or quality of tobacco ex-
pressed in such manifest or note, or shall offer or cause to be offered in pay-
ment, any such forged, counterfeited, or altered manifest or note, knowing
the same to be forged, counterfeited or altered, and shall be thereof con-
victed, he shall be fined in any sum not exceeding three hundred dollars,
or sentenced to the penitentiary for any term not less than eighteen months
nor more than seven years, or both, in the discretion of the court.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 60. 1912, sec. 57. 1904, sec. 51. 1888, sec. 42. 1789, ch. 26, sec. 37.

1867, ch. 56.

61. 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, 1924, sec. 61. 1912, sec. 58. 1904, sec. 52. 1888, sec. 43. 1789, ch. 26, secs. 18, 31.

62. 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, 1924, sec. 62. 1912, sec. 59. 1904, sec. 53. 1888, sec. 44. 1827, ch. 91, sec. 4.

63. 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