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payment of the same or otherwise to cause the drawee thereof to disregard
or dishonor or refuse to recognize such instrument, shall be deemed to have
obtained such money, credit, goods, wares, or other thing of value with
intent to cheat and defraud another and upon conviction, shall be fined or
imprisoned or both, as provided in Section 150 of this Article, at the
discretion of the Court. And upon the trial of any person accused of vio-
lation of this section, the fact that such person without the consent of such
other to stop or countermand the countermanded payment of such instru-
ment, or otherwise caused the drawee to disregard or dishonor the same
without returning or tendering the return of the thing so obtained shall
be presumptive evidence of such intent to cheat and defraud.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 143. 1912, sec. 124. 1904, sec. 113. 1888, sec. 83. 1835, ch. 319, sec. 3.

155. When any person shall be convicted of any statutory felony or
misdemeanor, for the false or fraudulent obtention or embezzlement, se-
creting or making way with goods, chattels, valuable effects, money or
securities, the court before whom any such conviction shall be had may
award restitution to the real owner thereof; provided, however, that no
bona fide holder thereof shall be obliged to surrender up the same.
See section 387.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 144. 1912, sec. 125. 1904, sec. 114. 1888, sec. 84. 1888, ch. 280.

156. Every person who by any false pretense shall obtain from any
club, association, society or company for improving the breed of cattle,
horses, sheep, swine and other domestic animals a certificate of registra-
tion of any animal in the herd register or other register of any such club,
association, society or company, or a transfer of any such registration,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 145. 1912, sec. 126. 1904, see. 115. 1892, ch. 142, sec. 84A.

157. Any person who shall by any false and fraudulent representa-
tion in writing, signed by him as to his own or his partner's pecuniary re-
sponsibility, wealth or mercantile correspondence or connections, obtain
any loan of money or of property from any person, persons, copartnership
or corporation and shall thereby defraud such person, persons, copartner-
ship or corporation, or who shall cause or procure another to make any
false and fraudulent representation in writing, signed by the person mak-
ing the same, as to the pecuniary responsibility, wealth or mercantile
correspondence, or connections of the person who shall cause or procure
such false representation to be made, or of any other person, and shall
thereby obtain any loan of money or of property from any person, persons,
copartnership or corporation, and shall thereby defraud such person, per-
sons, copartnership or corporation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof shall be sentenced to return the money or property
so fraudulently obtained, and shall be fined not exceeding two thousand
dollars, or shall be confined in the jail of the county or the city of Balti-
more, as the case may be, not exceeding one year, or shall be both fined
and imprisoned as aforesaid, in the discretion of the court.