ART. 27] FALSE PRETENSES——FRAUD. 161

False Pretenses.

1892, ch. 142.

83 A. Any person who shall, by any false and fraudulent rep-
resentation in writing signed by him as to his own or his partner's
pecuniary responsibility, wealth or mercantile correspondence or
connections, obtain any loan of money or of property from any
person, persons, copartnership or corporation, and shall thereby
defraud such person, persons, copartnership or corporation, or
who shall cause or procure another to make any false and fraud-
ulent representation in writing, signed by the person making the
same, as to the pecuniary responsibility, wealth or mercantile
correspondence, or connections of the person who shall cause or
procure such false representation to be made, or of any other
person, and shall thereby obtain any loan of money or of prop-
erty from any person, persons, copartnership or corporation, and
shall thereby defraud such person, persons, copartnership or cor-
poration, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof, shall be sentenced to return the money or property so
fraudulently obtained, and shall be fined not exceeding two
thousand dollars, or shall be confined in the jail of the county or
the city of Baltimore, as the case may be, not exceeding one
year, or shall be both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid, in the
discretion of the court.

Fraud—Boarding House, Hotel and Livery Stable Keepers.

1892, ch. 42. 1894, ch. 418. 1898, ch. 287.

84 A. Every person who shall by any false or fraudulent repre-
sentations, or by any false show of baggage, goods or chattels,
which are calculated to deceive any hotel proprietor, keeper or
manager, obtain lodging or credit, or the use of any horse or
vehicle, or food or stabling for a horse or horses in any hotel in
this State, or from the keeper of any livery 'stable, and shall sub-
sequently refuse, decline or fail to pay for his credit, board or
lodging, or use of horse or food or stabling for horse furnished
him, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof,
shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars,
or by imprisonment in jail for a term of not lees than one mouth
nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment in the discretion of the court.
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