DEPARTMENT OF LAW 1389

resides or has its principal office within the State of Maryland, or in the
Superior Court of Baltimore City, if such residence or office is in Balti-
more City. And in such proceeding any such person, partnership or cor-
poration shall be entitled to have any issues of fact arising therein deter-
mined by a jury, provided written demand is filed at the time of the
institution of said proceeding. The Court shall have power during the
pendency of the proceeding before it, to suspend or modify the order of
the Attorney General and to enter an appropriate judgment or order at
the conclusion of such hearing to modify, affirm or set aside order. From
the final order or judgment of the said Court, either party to said pro-
ceeding may appeal to the Court of Appeals of Maryland, as in other cases
or suits at law arising in said Court; and, in case of such appeal, the
testimony adduced before the Court shall be presented to the Court, of
Appeals by bills of exception in customary form, as in other law cases, and
the Court of Appeals may review the questions of law arising on said
appeal as in other appeals from courts of law and in ordinary course.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 14. 1920, ch. 552, sec. 14. 1931, ch. 271, sec. 14. 1937, ch. 348, sec. 14.

17. Any person, partnership or corporation violating the provisions
of Sections 11 or 12 hereof, or any person, partnership or corporation hav-
ing been served with any order of the Attorney General under Section 15
of this Article, or having knowledge of the issuance of said order and
while said order remains in effect, either as originally issued or as modified,
who or which shall execute or carry on in any manner any scheme or de-
vice against which said order has been issued, or wilfully attempts so to
do, or shall sell or deliver or receive payment in money or property for any
paper, certificate or instrument purporting to be or represent any interest in
or order for stocks, bonds, notes, shares, profit sharing agreements, service
agreements, membership certificates and trustees certificates, or other se-
curities mentioned in said order of the Attorney General, or shall publish
or cause to be published any advertisement of any such stocks, bonds, notes,
shares, profit sharing agreements, service agreements, membership certifi-
cates and trustees certificates, or other securities pursuant to said scheme
or device against which said order has been issued, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than ten thou-
sand dollars ($10,000) or imprisoned not more than two years, or be
subject to both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court.
Wilful misrepresentation or concealment by any person, firm or corpora-
tion, engaged in the business referred to in Section 11, of any material
fact in his or its registration statement or in any application, report or
document submitted in connection with his or its registration, shall subject
such person, firm or corporation to the penalty provided by this section.

Secs. 14-17 not repugnant to art. 27, sec. 184. State v. Coblentz, 167 Md. 528.