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same not purporting to be a warehouse receipt and indictment not charging that the
parties issuing it were warehousemen, is not a warehouse or storage receipt within
meaning of act, 1876, ch. 262. State v. Bryant, 63 Md. 67 (cf. dissenting opinion).

As to "Bills of Lading," see art. 14.

As to fraudulent conveyances, see art. 39B.

Fraud—Breach of Trust, Bills of Lading, Elevator or Warehouse Receipts.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 153. 1912, sec. 132. 1904, sec. 119. 1890, ch. 399, sec. 87A.

167. If any person or persons shall on his or their own behalf, or shall
for or on behalf of any other person or persons, or shall for or on behalf
of any firm, copartnership or corporation, receive, accept or take in trust
from any person, persons, firm, copartnership or corporation any ware-
house receipt or elevator receipt, or bill of lading or any document giving
or purporting to give title, to or the right to possession of any goods,
wares, merchandise or other personal property of any kind, under or
subject to any written contract or agreement expressing the terms and
condition of such trust; and if such person or persons so receiving any
warehouse receipt or elevator receipt, bill of lading or any document giving
or purporting to give title to or the right to possession of any goods, wares
or merchandise or other personal property of any kind shall, in violation
of good faith, fail, neglect or refuse to perform or fulfill the terms and
conditions of such trust as expressed in such written contract or agree-
ment,, then and in every sudh case such person or persons so failing, neg-
lecting or refusing to perform or fulfill the terms and conditions of such
trust shall, on being convicted thereof, be imprisoned in the penitentiary
for a term not more than ten years nor less than one year, or be fined not
more than five thousand dollars nor less than five hundred dollars, or both,
in the discretion of the court.

See sec. 277.

As to "Warehouse Receipts," see art. 14A.

Fraud—Boarding House, Hotel and Livery Stable Keepers.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 154. 1912, sec. 133. 1904, sec. 120. 1892, ch. 42. 1894, ch. 418.
1898, ch. 287, sec. 84A. 1939, ch. 125, sec. 154.

168. Every person who shall by any false or fraudulent representa-
tions, or by any false show of baggage, goods or chattels, which are calcu-
lated to deceive any hotel proprietor, keeper or manager, obtain lodging or
credit in an amount in excess of the realizable value of such baggage,
goods or chattels, and shall subsequently refuse, decline or fail to pay in full
for his credit, board or lodging, whether or not such person shall have made
any; payment on account shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-
viction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred
dollars or by imprisonment in jail for a term of not less than one month
nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the
discretion of the court.

An. Code. 1924, sec. 155. 1912, sec. 134. 1904, sec. 121. 1894, ch. 418. 1898, ch. 287,
sec. 84B. 1912, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 279. 1924, ch. 447. 1939, ch. 125, sec. 155.

169. Every person who shall at any hotel, inn, boarding house, hos-
pital, sanitarium receive or cause to be furnished any food or accommo-
dation and shall fraudulently fail to pay in full for same, whether or not
such person shall have made any payment on account, and every person
who shall obtain credit at any hotel, inn, boarding house, hospital or
sanitarium by the use of any false pretense or device, or by fraudulently