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An. Code, 1924, sec. 376. 1912, sec. 340. 1904, sec. 315. 1888, sec. 207. 1882, ch. 491, sec. 7.

1916, ch. 528, sec. 340.

456. All costs incurred in prosecutions under Sections 449 and 450
hereof, shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as in criminal
cases, and be accounted for in the same manner as fines in cases of assault
and battery are now by law disposed of.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 377. 1912, sec. 342. 1904, sec. 316. 1902, ch. 606, art. 43, sec. 81A.

457. No person shall manufacture, sell or offer for sale, or order or
permit any employe or other person to sell or offer for sale either at whole-
sale or retail, any malt extract, beer, porter, ale or stout unless the same
shall have been brewed and fermented as such; and any person or corpora-
tion or officer or agent thereof violating this provision, or any person or
corporation or officer thereof selling or offering for sale, or ordering or
permitting any employe or other person to sell or offer for sale any beer (to
which coloring matter or porteine has been added) representing the same to
be malt extract or porter or other beverage, or any malt or spirituous liquor
other than by its proper name, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and punished by imprisonment for not longer than one year, or by a fine not
exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment in the
discretion of the court having jurisdiction.

See notes to art. 43, sec. 181.

Minors—Care and Protection of.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 378. 1912, sec. 343. 1904, sec. 317. 1888, sec. 208. 1888, ch. 77.

458. Every agent, officer or representative of any institution, society
or body, incorporated under the laws of this State for the care, custody or
protection of children or minors having in his possession, custody or per-
sonal charge, any minor or person under twenty-one years of age, for any
purpose connected with the objects of such institution, society or body, shall
be entitled to all the privileges and authority of a conservator of the peace;
and any person, whether under the claim or color of authority over the
person of such minor as parent, guardian or otherwise, or under any other
color, pretense or claim, who shall in any manner interfere with or obstruct
such agent, officer or representative in relation to his possession, custody or
personal charge of such minor shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and it shall
be the duty of all officers of police, policemen, constables and officers and
officials of every description having the authority to make arrests to enforce
this section in every particular.

As to the "Commitment of Minors," see art. 42, sec. 19, et seq.

See art. 88A, sec. 10.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 379. 1912, sec. 344. 1904, sec. 318. 1900, ch. 334, sec. 208A.

459. Any person having in his custody or control a child under the age
of fourteen years who shall in any way dispose of it with a view to its
being employed as an acrobat, or a gymnast, or a contortionist, or a circus
rider, or a rope walker, or in any exhibition of like dangerous character,
or as a beggar or mendicant, or street singer, or street musician, and any
person who shall take, receive, hire, employ, use, exhibit or have in custody
any child under the age last named for any of the purposes herein enumer-

¹ Sec. 2 of act of 1916, ch. 528, provides for the repeal of all acts or parts of acts in-
consistent with said act, and also contains a "saving clause" as to offences committed
prior to the passage of said act.