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CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1169
dollars for the first offense, and shall be imprisoned as aforesaid not less
than sixty days nor more than ninety days, and be fined one hundred
dollars for the second offense, one-half of the fine imposed in any case to
go to the informer, and on the trial of any one for violating the provisions
of said section, proof of the sale, or offer to sell, or exposure for sale of
the said mixture shall be presumptive evidence of knowledge of the char-
acter of the article so sold or offered or exposed.
For abolition of informer's fees, see art. 38, sec. 3.
An. Code, 1924, sec. 256. 1912, sec. 193. 1804, sec. 175. 1898, ch. 364, sec. 3.
256. All red clover seed mixed with yellow trefoil seed sold in the city
of Baltimore or in any county of this State shall be in conformity with
section 254 and any person selling, or offering, or exposing red clover seed
mixed with yellow trefoil seed for sale not in accordance with said section
shall forfeit the same, and it shall be seized and taken by the sheriff of
the city of Baltimore or the constables of any county, and sold for the use
of the public school fund in the city or county where such seizure was made.
Fraud—Special Partnership.
An. Code, 1924, sec. 220. 1912, sec. 194. 1904, sec. 176. 1888, sec. 118. 1836, ch. 97, sec. 14.
257. In every special partnership, general partners shall be liable to
account to each other and to special partners for the management of the
concerns both in law and equity, as other partners now are by law; and
every partner who shall be guilty of fraud in the management of the affairs
of the partnership shall be liable civilly to the party injured to the extent
of his damages, and shall also be liable to an indictment for a misdemeanor,
punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the court
by which he shall be tried.
As to "Limited Partnerships," see art. 73.
Fraud—Stallions—By Owners or Agents of.
An. Code, 1924, sec. 221. 1912, sec. 195. 1904, sec. 177. 1892, ch. 419, sec. 1. 1908, ch. 46.
258. Every owner or agent who may have the custody or control of
any stallion or jackass, who shall charge a fee for the services of such
stallion or jackass, shall before advertising or offering such service to the
public for any fee, reward or compensation, file with the clerk of the cir-
cuit court for the county in which such owner or owners, agent or agents,
reside, or in which such stallion or jackass shall be kept for service, or
if such service shall be offered in the city of Baltimore, then with the clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas, a written statement giving the name, age,
pedigree and record, if known, and if not known, then that the same is
unknown, the description, terms and conditions upon which such stallion
or jackass will serve. Upon filing such statement, the clerk of the circuit
court for the county, or of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore,
as the case may be, shall issue a certificate or license to the owner or own-
ers, agent or agents having the custody and control of such stallion or
jackass, that such a statement has been filed in his office; the owners, or
agent or agents, of the owners of such stallion or jackass shall then post a
written or printed copy of the statement so filed with such clerk, in a con-
spicuous place in each locality in which said stallion or jackass shall be
kept for service.
As to "Stallions," see art. 56, sec. 131, et seq.
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