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CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, ETC. [ART. 72.

paper bill of credit, certificate granted by or under the authority
of this State, or of the United States, or any of them, knowing the
same to be stolen, shall restore such money, goods or chattels, or
thing taken and received, to the owner thereof, or make restitution
to the value of the whole, or such part as shall not be restored, and
shall undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for not less than

Punishment

eighteen months nor more than ten years , and such receiver may
be prosecuted and punished, although the principal offenders shall
not have been convicted.

EMBEZZLING PROPERTY AND WRITINGS.

Art 30, s 46
1715, c 11,
1809, c 188, s 8
Embezzling
documents, or
altering will,
etc.
6 Md 104,
20 Md 428 ,
25 Md 434
1 H & McH 62

Punishment.

49. Every person convicted of wilfully or corruptly embezzling,
stealing, witMdrawing, impairing, razing, or altering any will, testa-
ment, codicil, patent, deed, or assignment of a patent, writ, return,
record, or parcel of the same, within this State, whereby the estate
or right of any person shall or may be defeated, injured or any way
altered, shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than
three nor more than seven years.

Id s 47
1798, c 101, sub-
c 2, s 1
Destroying will,
or secreting
same

50. If any person to whom a will or codicil shall be delivered
by the party making it for safe custody, shall destroy the same
without the direction of the said party, orf wilfully secrete it for the
space of six months after the death of the party shall be known to
him, on conviction thereof the person so offending shall be sentenced

Punishment.

to the penitentiary for not less than eighteen months nor more than
fifteen years.

Id s 48
1820, c 162, s 1
Embelling,
etc , by bank
officers.

51. If any president or director of any bank chartered by the
laws of this State, shall fraudulently embezzle, secrete, or make
way with any money, goods, bill, note, bond, check, evidence of
debt, or other valuable security or effects belonging to such bank,
every such offender, his adviser, procurer, aider, or abettor, shall be
deemed guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof shall be sen-

Punishment

tenced to the penitentiary for not less than five nor more than fifteen
years.

Id s 49
1820, c 162, s 2.
Employee
guilty of em-
bezzlement, etc.

52. If any cashier, servant, agent, or clerk, or any person em-
ployed for the purpose or in the capacity of cashier, servant, agent,
or clerk to any person or to any body corporate, shall by virtue of
such employment, receive or take into his possession any money,
goods, bill, note, bond, check, evidence of debt, or other valuable
security or effects, for and in the name or on account of his em-
ployer, and shall fraudulently embezzle, secrete, or make way with
the same, or any part thereof, he shall be deemed guilty of having
feloniously stolen the same from his employer, for whose use or in
whose name or on whose account the same was or were delivered to
or taken into the possession of such cashier, servant, clerk, or other
person employed, although such money, goods, bill, bond, note,
check, evidence of debt, or other valuable security or effects was or
were not otherwise received into the possession of such employer
than by the actual possession of his cashier, servant or clerk, or