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without the direction of the said party, or 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 to the penitentiary for not less than eighteen months
nor more than fifteen years.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 48. 1820, ch 102, sec. 1.

74. 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
sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than five nor more than
fifteen years.

Ibid. sec. 49. 1820, ch. 162, sec. S. 1880, ch. 458. 1886, ch. 810.

75. Whosoever being a cashier, servant, agent or clerk to any
person, or to any body corporate, or being employed for the pur-
pose or in the capacity of a cashier, servant, agent or clerk, by any
person or body corporate, shall fraudulently embezzle any money,
goods, bill, note, bond, check, evidence of debt, or other valuable
security or effects which, or any part whereof, shall be delivered
to or received, or taken into possession by him, for or in the name
or on the account of his master or employer, shall be deemed to
have feloniously stolen the same from his master or employer,
although such money, goods, bill, note, bond, check, evidence of

debt, or other valuable security or effects was not received into the
possession of such master or employer, otherwise than by the
actual possession of his cashier, servant, agent, clerk or other per-
son so employed, and being convicted thereof, shall be punished
by imprisonment in the jail or house of correction for not more
than three years, or in the penitentiary for not more than fifteen
years; in every indictment for a violation of this section, when
the offence shall relate to coin or notes circulating as money, it

shall be sufficient to allege the embezzlement to be of money,
without specifying any particular coin or notes circulating as
money; and such allegation, so far as regards the description of
the property, shall be sustained if the offender shall be proved to