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sentenced to the penitentiary not exceeding seven years nor less
than eighteen mouths, or be fined not exceeding three hundred
dollars, or both of them, in the discretion of the court; and if
any person shall put or pack any tobacco into any hogshead
marked by any inspector, in lieu of tobacco inspected, or shall

draw or take out any stave, plank or heading board of any hogs-
head of tobacco, after it shall be delivered out from any public

warehouse, unless it be for the purpose of examining the quality
of tobacco by a person intending to purchase the same, upon
conviction thereof he shall be fined a sum not exceeding one
hundred dollars.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 80, sec. 85. 1789, ch. 26, secs. 18, 31.

43. The inspectors of tobacco in this State shall brand with a
hob-iron on every hogshead of tobacco inspected by them, the
name of the State wherein the tobacco was raised; and if any
person shall rub out or deface any such brand on any hogshead

of tobacco, with a view of changing the same, or shall falsely
mark or brand any hogshead contrary to the provisions of this
section, upon conviction thereof, he shall suffer a confinement in
the penitentiary for not less than six months nor more than two
years.

Ibid. sec. 36. 1827, ch. 91, sec. 4.

44. Any person breaking any hogshead of tobacco with the
word Maryland on the bilge, or any other part of a hogshead

with intent to evade the provisions of the kws relating to the
inspection of tobacco, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and upon
conviction thereof, shall undergo a confinement in the peniten-
tiary for not less than two nor more than four years.

Ibid. sec. 37. 1821, chs. 150, 204. 1834, ch. 279, sec. 2.

45. If any person shall forge or counterfeit any certificate of
the stock of this State, or any letter of attorney for the transfer,
thereof, or shall forge or counterfeit any such certificate with the
intent of putting the same in circulation, on conviction thereof,
he shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than two
nor more than ten years.