120 BILLS OP LADING AND STORAGE RECEIPTS. [ART. 14.

and any principal person or corporation, or any agent or officer
whatsoever, of any person or corporation, wilfully violating this
section, or any of the provisions thereof, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be subject to a
fine of not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand
dollars, in the discretion of the court.
State v. Bryant, 63 Md. 66.

1876, ch. 262, sec. 6.

6. No warehouseman or corporation or person whatsoever
having issued or caused to be issued or having outstanding, and
issued by any agent or officer of such person or corporation as
aforesaid, any receipt, acceptance of order or other voucher for
goods, chattels or commodities as on deposit or storage with or in
the custody or on the premises, or under the control of such
person or corporation, shall issue any other receipt, acceptance of
order or other voucher whatsoever for the some, or any port
thereof until the said first issued instrument shall have been
returned and cancelled or destroyed; and no person or corporation
whatsoever having issued or having outstanding as aforesaid, any
such receipt, acceptance of order or other voucher aforesaid, and
no agent or officer of any such person or corporation shall part
with, deliver or remove or permit to be delivered or removed,
the goods, chattels or commodities in such instrument named or
described, or any part thereof, except only to or by the holder of
said instrument, or upon his order, and upon the presentation of
said instrument with his endorsement in every case, or without
cancelling or destroying said instrument in case of complete
delivery or removal or endorsing thereon the quantity and de-
scription of the goods, chattels or commodities delivered or
removed, and the names of the persons to whom dellvered, or
by whom removed in case such delivery or removal shall be
partial only; and any principal person or corporation or agent or
officer of any person or corporation wilfully violating this section
or any of the provisions thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
punishable by a fine of not less than one thousand, nor more than
five thousand dollars in the case of a corporation, and in the case
of an individual by a fine of not less than one hundred, nor more
than five thousand dollars, and imprisonment in the penitentiary