502 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

order or other voucher whatsoever for the same, or any part
thereof until the said first issued instrument shall have been
returned and cancelled or destroyed; and no person or corpora-
tion whatsoever having issued or having Dutstanding as aforesaid
any such receipt, acceptance of order or other voucher aforesaid,
and no agent or officer of any such person or corporation shall
part with, deliver or remove or permit to be delivered or
removed, the goods, chattels or commodities in such instrument
named or described, or any part thereof, except only to or by the
holder of said instrument, or upon his order, and upon the
presentation of said instrument with his endorsement in every
case, or without cancelling or destroying said instrument in case
of complete delivery or removal or endorsing thereon the quan-
tity and description of the goods, chattels or commodities, de-
livered or removed, and the names of the persons to whom
delivered, or by whom removed in case such delivery or removal
shall be partial only; and any principal person or corporation or
agent or officer of any person or corporation wilfully violating;
this section or any of the provisions thereof shall be guilty of a.
misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than one thousand,
nor more than five thousand dollars in the case of a corporation,
and in the case of an individual by a fine of not less than one-
hundred, nor more than five thousand dollars, and imprisonment
in the penitentiary for a period of not less than one year, nor more
than three years, in the discretion of the court; provided,
however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to
prohibit the bona fide issuing of duplicate receipts, acceptances or
other vouchers aforesaid, with the word "duplicate" conspicu-
ously written or printed upon the face thereof, in the stead of any
original outstanding receipts, acceptances or other vouchers
aforesaid, which may have been lost, destroyed or mislaid.
State v. Bryant, 63 Md. 66.

Fugitive Convicts.

P G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 55. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 7.

120. Any person who has been convicted and condemned to
serve and labor as a criminal, and who may escape and be found
in this State, shall be deemed a fugitive felon, and being thereof
convicted by a duly authenticated record from the court of the