500 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

or agricultural products in general cultivation, without first filing
with the clerk of the circuit court for the county in which such
sale or saies, or traffic of such seed, or any of them, or other agri-
cultural products is proposed to be made, a written statement of
the kind of seed or agricultural product offered for sale or traffic,
with a full description of the same and the advantages claimed,
for the same over other seed or products of the same variety, to
which written statement shall be attached the name and place of
residence of the person or persons, company or firm, offering for
Bale or traffic such seeds or products.

1888, ch. 415, sec. 2.

114. Any person or persons, company, firm or agent violating
the provisions of the foregoing section shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof before a justice of the
peace, on a warrant to be issued in the name of the State of
Maryland, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one
hundred dollars or imprisoned in the county jail for not less than
three nor more than six months, or be both fined and imprisoned
in the discretion of the justice, or the court, if the accused demand
a trial by jury before the circuit court.

Ibid. sec. 3.

115. Any person or persons, firm or company, offering for
barter, sale or traffic, any oats, wheat, rye, corn, clover seed, or
other agricultural product, representing them, or any of them, as
possessing qualities or productiveness superior to the same varieties,
in general cultivation, and selling the same on credit, or in any
way bartering or trafficking in the same, shall in" each and every
case state in the note or bill of exchange taken for the same the
kind or variety of the seed sold or bartered, with a succinct state-
ment of the advantages or superior qualities claimed for such seed
or products, and the terms on which the same is or are bartered
or sold; and the note taken shall contain a general warranty as to
the kind, quality and value of the article sold.

Ibid. sec. 4.

116. Any person who shall violate either of the provisions of
the foregoing section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon