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ship or corporation be conducted within the limits of said city, or
if in any one of the counties of the State, then before the clerk

of the circuit court therefor, a description of such boxes or bottles,
founts, jugs or any other vessel, and the name or names of the
users and owners of the same; and there shall be published by
the owners, if doing business in the city of Baltimore, a descrip-
tive notice thereof twice a week for two successive weeks in some
daily newspaper published in said city, or if in the counties, such
jiotice in some paper publlshed in said county, once a week for
two successive weeks.

1882, ch 491, sec. 2.

202. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the superior court of
Baltimore city, and the clerks of the circuit courts for the various

counties of the State, to keep a separate book of record, in which
shall be entered all such names, marks or designations as are par-
ticularly named and referred to in the preceding section, as well
as a copy of the newspaper advertisement certified to by the
publishers of the newspaper or papers in which said advertise-
ment may have appeared; and the clerks shall charge and be
paid the usual fees of recording, to be accounted for by them as
in the case of other record fees; and a certified copy of the name

or names of the person or persons, partnership or corporate bodies,
marks of ownership stamped and engraved as contemplated in
the preceding section, together with a copy of the advertisement
appearing in the newspaper, shall be evidence of title when cer-
tified to under the hand of said clerk, with the seal of his office
attached.

Ibid. sec. 3.

203. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, partner-
ships or corporate bodies, without the written consent of the owner
or owners thereof, to trade or traffic in, or to wilfully mar or erase
the name or names, mark or marks, thereon, or to break, destroy
or otherwise injure any such box or boxes, bottle or bottles, jug
or jugs, fount or founts, so marked or stamped, description of
which shall have beeii filed and published as provided in the two
preceding sections, or to fill the same with mineral water, porter or
any other beverage whatsoever, for the purpose of sale or traffic;
and any person or persons who shall violate the provisions of this