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to the time of their delivery to the carrier, the goods which are subject to
the mortgage or lien and obtained possession of them.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 44. 1912, sec. 44. 1910, ch. 336, sec. 44 (p. 43).

44. Any officer, agent or servant of a carrier, who with intention to de-
fraud issues or aids in issuing a bill, knowing that all or any part of the
goods for which such bill is issued have not been received by such carrier,
or by an agent of such carrier, or by a connecting carrier, or are not under
the carrier's control at the time of issuing such bill, shall be guilty of such
a crime, and upon conviction shall be punished for each offense by impris-
onment not exceeding five years, or by a fine not exceeding five thousand
dollars, or by both.

For a case dealing with sec. 6 of art. 14 of the Code of 1904, see. B. & O. R. R. Co.
v. Reuter, 114 Md. 698.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 45. 1912, sec. 45. 1910, ch. 336, sec. 45 (p. 44).

45. Any officers, agent or servant of a carrier, who, with intent to
defraud, issues or aids in issuing a bill for goods, knowing that it contains
any false statement, shall be guilty of a crime, and upon conviction shall
be punished for each offense by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by
a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 46. 1912, sec. 46. 1910, ch. 336, sec. 46 (p. 44).

46. Any officer, agent or servant of a carrier who, with intent to de-
fraud, issues or aids in issuing a duplicate or additional negotiable bill
for goods in violation of the provisions of section 7, knowing that a former
negotiable bill for the same goods, or any part of them, is outstanding and
uncancelled, shall be guilty of a crime, and upon conviction shall be pun-
ished for each offense by imprisonment not exceeding five years, or by a
fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by both.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 47. 1912, sec. 47. 1910, ch. 336, sec. 47 (p. 44).

47. Any person who ships goods to which he has not title, or upon
which there is a lien or mortgage, and who takes for such goods a negotiable
bill which he afterwards negotiates for value, with intent to deceive and
without disclosing his want of title, or the existence of the lien or mortgage,
shall be guilty of a crime, and upon conviction shall be punished for each
offense by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding
one thousand dollars, or by both.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 48. 1912, sec. 48. 1910, ch. 336, sec. 48 (p. 44).

48. Any person who, with intent to deceive, negotiates or transfers for
value a bill, knowing that any or all of the goods which by the terms of such
bill appear to have been received for transportation by the carrier which
issued the bill, are not in the possession or control of such carrier, or of a
connecting carrier, without disclosing this fact, shall be guilty of a crime,
and upon conviction shall be punished for each offense by imprisonment not
exceeding five years, or by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or
by both.