CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1269

An. Code, 1924, sec. 512. 1912, sec. 464. 1910, ch. 381 (p. 95).

601. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to engage
in or carry on the business of issuing or selling to merchants or other
dealers any stamp, trading stamp, cash discount stamp, ticket, check, cou-
pon or other similar device as provided in sections 593, 594, 596, 59T, 598
and 600 ¹ of this article, unless prior to doing so, said person, firm or
corporation issuing or selling the same, shall have entered into a bond to the
State of Maryland, in the penalty of twenty-five thousand dollars, with
security to be approved by and said bond to be filed with the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City or with the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for the county in which such stamp, trading stamp, cash discount stamp,
ticket, check, coupon or other similar device shall be issued, sold or given,
and to be recorded by said clerk at the cost of the person, firm or corporation
giving such bond, conditioned for the faithful performance by the person,
firm or corporation executing such bond, of each and all the obligations in-
curred in connection with the issue of such stamp, trading stamp, cash dis-
count stamp, ticket, check, coupon or other similar device; and in the event
of failure at any time to comply with any of the obligations of said stamp,
trading stamp, cash discount stamp, ticket, check, coupon or other similar
device, by the person, firm or corporation executing said bond, the holder
of such stamp, trading stamp, cash discount stamp, ticket, check, coupon or
other similar device shall be entitled to maintain a suit on such bond to
recover the amount of the loss sustained by him by reason of such default.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 513. 1912, sec. 465. 1910, ch. 381 (p. 95).

602. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of
Sections 596, 597, 598, 600 or 601 of this Article, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than
fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every offense,
and in default of payment of the fine shall be committed to jail for a period
of not less than thirty days, and one-half of the fine so paid shall go to
the informer.

For abolition of informer's fees, see art. 38, sec. 3.

Transportation for Immoral Purposes.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 514. 1912, sec. 465A. 1918, ch. 83, sec. 1.

603. It shall be unlawful for any person to transport or to offer to
transport, or to aid or assist in transporting any person or persons upon or
over any public street, road, highway, river, stream, bay, or other public
way of any nature whatever within the State of Maryland by means of
a horse vehicle, automobile, boat, vessel, or other means of transportation
used or employed for hire, for purposes of prostitution or any other im-
moral or lewd purpose. This sub-title shall only apply to public convey-
ances for hire.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 515. 1912, sec. 465B. 1918, ch. 83, secs. 2 and 3.

604. Any person convicted of a violation of this sub-title shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00 or by imprisonment not exceed-
ing one year, or by both fine and imprisonment within such limits. Upon
conviction under this sub-title the person so convicted shall forfeit his

¹ Act of 1910, ch. 381, sec. 412B (page 95), here adds secs. 412 and 412A of act of 1910,
but those sections were held unconstitutional in State v. Caspare, 115 Md. 7.