474 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

1882, ch. 240.

46. If any person shall falsely make, alter, forge or counter-
feit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, altered, forged or
counterfeited, or shall willingly aid or assist in falsely making,
altering, forging or counterfeiting, or shall utter or pass, knowing
it to be falsely made, altered, forged or counterfeited, any metallic
check, card or other substance or device used or intended to be
used by any person engaged in hermetically sealing or canning
fruits, vegetables or other articles of food in this State, as an
evidence of indebtedness from or by any person engaged in pre-
serving foods as aforesaid, to any person employed by him, her
or them, or used as an evidence or record of the state of accounts
existing between the said employer and any of his employees, he

shall be deemed a felon, and on conviction in any court in this
State be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than one nor
more than five years.

Defaulters.

1870, ch. 861. 1872, ch. 329.

47. If any clerk, register of wills, sheriff, collector of
taxes, notary public, or other officer, whose duty it is to collect
revenue due the State of Maryland or any county thereof,
shall, after the receipt of the said revenue by him, wilfully detain
the same in his possession and neglect to pay the same into the
treasury of the State or to the county commissioners, or the
proper officer authorized to receive the some, for more than sixty
days after the day upon which it is made by law his duty to pay
the same, or if no particular day be appointed by law for said
payment, and such officer shall detain any revenue due to the
State or to any county thereof, and which it is his duty to collect,
and which he shall have collected and shall neglect to pay the-
same into the treasury of the State, or to the county commission-
ers, or the proper officer authorized to receive the same, for the
space of six months after he shall have so collected the same,
such officer so offending in either case, shall be deemed to be a
defaulter, and upon indictment and conviction thereof, shall, in
addition to any other penalties already provided by law, be for
each offence imprisoned in the State penitentiary not less than
one year nor more than five years, unless the amount for which.