ART. 27.] FALSE PRETENCES—FEMALE SITTERS. 487

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 53. 1835, ch. 319, sec. 3.

83. When any person shall be convicted of any statutory
felony or misdemeanor, for the false or fraudulent obtention or
embezzlement, secreting or making way with goods, chattels,
valuable effects, money or securities, the court before whom any
such conviction shall be had, may award restitution to the real
owner thereof; provided, however, that no bona fide holder
thereof shall be obliged to surrender up the same.
Isaacs v. State, 23 Md. 410.

1888, ch, 280.

84. Every person who by any false pretence shall obtain from
any club, association, society or company for improving the
breed of cattle, horses, sheep, swine and other domestic animals,
a certificate of registration of any animal in the herd register, or
other register, of any such club, association, society or company,
or a transfer of any such registration, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than
ten nor more than one hundred dollars.

Female Sitters.

1886, ch. 171, sec. 1.

85. It shall be unlawful for any proprietor, lessee or manager
of any variety entertainment or concert hall (whether an admit-
tance fee is charged or not), to employ, engage or allow any
female sitters (or by whatever other name they may be called) in
or about said entertainment or concert hall, building, room or
premises; and all females who are allowed in or about the said
premises who shall drink, smoke or partake of any kind of eat-
ables or refreshments at the expense of others, or solicit others to
purchase such things as may be purchased there, upon which
they shall receive or expect to receive a commission, or who may
be paid a regular salary therefor, or who participate in any way
in the profits thereof, shall be deemed sitters under this section.

Ibid sec. 2.

86. Any person convicted of a violation of the preceding
section shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars nor more
than one thousand dollars, or be confined in jail or the house of