494 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. {ART. 27.

or liabilities, with a view either to enhance or depress the market
value of the shares therein, or the value of its corporate obliga-
tions, or in any other manner to accomplish any fraud thereby,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, by indictment in any court of law, shall be fined not less
than one thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars,
and be imprisoned in jail or penitentiary, or either fined or im-
prisoned, at the discretion of the court, for not less than six months
nor more than three years.

Fraud-Flour and Whiskey, Sales of.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 80, sec. 204. 1816, ch. 160, sec. 1.

98. If any person shall give or promise to give to any driver
or person having charge of any wagon or other carriage, any sum
of money or goods of any description for the purpose of obtain-
ing flour or whiskey intrusted to the care of such driver or person
having the charge or care thereof, at any price below the market
price of the day, or shall wilfully make out any bill or bills for
the same, without stating the full amount paid or promised to be
paid to such wagoner or person having the care thereof, he shall
forfeit and pay a sum not less than twenty nor more than fifty
dollars, one-half to the informer and the other half to the use of
the person injured, to be recovered before any justice of the
peace as small debts are recovered.

Ibid. sec. 205. 1816, ch. 160, sec. 2.

99. If any driver or person having charge of any wagon or
other carriage shall take or receive any sum of money or goods
of any description from any person as an inducement for selling
any flour or whiskey under the market price of the day, and not
make return thereof to the proper owner of such flour or whiskey,
he shall pay to the person injured double the amount of the sum
so received, and shall pay a fine not less than five nor more than
twenty dollars, one-half to the person prosecuting for the same
and the other half to the use of the county or city where the case
is heard, to be recovered as small debts are recovered.