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said ticket, coin, coupon or disc or slug or other thing is intended or de-
signed or used to be inserted in a box or machine for collection of fares
or fees, or to be taken up by a collector, shall make, utter, forge or coun-
terfeit or cause or procure to be made, uttered, forged or counterfeited
or shall aid or assist in making, uttering, forging or counterfeiting, or
utter or pass, knowing it to be so made, uttered, forged or counterfeited,
any such ticket, coupon, token, coin, disc or slug or any other thing so
issued, sold or given away by any person or corporation, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and on conviction in any Court of this State shall be sen-
tenced to the jail or house of correction for not more than one year.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 67. 1920, ch. 703, sec. 62B.

68. Any person who shall operate, or cause to be operated, or who shall
attempt to operate, or attempt to cause to be operated any automatic
vending machine, slot machine, coin box telephone or other receptacle,
designed to receive lawful coin of the United States of America in connec-
tion with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service, by means of a
slug or any false, counterfeited, mutilated, sweated or foreign coin, or by
any means, method, trick or device whatsoever not lawfully authorized by
the owner, lessee or licensee of such machine, coin box telephone or recep-
tacle; or who shall take, obtain or receive from or in connection with any
automatic vending machine, slot machine, coin box telephone or other
receptacle designed to receive coin of the United States of America in con-
nection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service, any goods,
wares, merchandise, gas, electric current, article of value, or the use or
enjoyment of any telephone or telegraph facilities or service, or of any
musical instrument, phonograph or other property, without depositing in
and surrendering to such machine, coin box telephone or receptacle lawful
coin of the United States of America to the amount required therefor by
the owner, lessee or licensee of such machine, coin box telephone or recep-
tacle shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, before
any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not exceed-
ing $500.00, or by imprisonment not to exceed three months, or both, in the
discretion of the Court.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 68. 1920, ch. 703, sec. 62C.

69. Any person who, with intent to cheat or defraud the owner, lessee,
licensee or other person entitled to the, contents of any automatic vending
machine, slot machine, coin box telephone or other receptable, depository or
contrivance designed to receive lawful coin of the United States of, America
in connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service, or
who, knowing that the same is intended for unlawful use, shall manufac-
ture for sale, or sell or give away any slug, device or substance whatsoever
intended or calculated to be placed or deposited in any such automatic
vending machine, slot machine, coin box telephone, or other such recep-
tacle, depository or contrivance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof, before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00, or by imprisonment not to exceed
three months, or both in the discretion of the Court.¹

This section referred to in construing secs. 288, et seq. Gaither 'v. Cate, 156 Md. 257

¹ Sec. 2 of ch. 703 of the acts of 1920, repeals all laws inconsistent with said act.