162 CHIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

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

84B. Every person who shall at any hotel, inn, boarding
house, or livery stable, receive or cause to be furnished any food
or accommodation for man or beast, and shall fraudulently fail
to pay for the same, and every person who shall obtain credit at
any hotel, inn or boarding house by the use of any false pretense
or device, or by fraudulently depositing at such hotel, inn or
boarding house any baggage or property of value less than the
amount of such credit or of the bill by such person incurred;
and every person who after obtaining credit or accommodation at
any hotel, inn or boarding house shall abscond or fraudulently
depart or remove his baggage therefrom without discharging the
debt as aforesaid incurred, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of net less
than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in jail for a term

of not less than one month nor more than six months, or by both
such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

Fraud-Breach of Trust—Bills of Lading Elevator or Ware-
house Receipts.

1890, ch. 399.

87 A. If any person or persons, shall on his or their own
behalf, or shall for or on behalf of any other person or persons,
or shall for on behalf of any firm, copartnership or corporation,
receive, accept or take in trust, from any person, persons, firm,

copartnership or corporation, any warehouse receipt or elevator
receipt, or bill of lading or any document giving or purporting
to give title to, or the right to possession of any goods, wares,
merchandise or other personal property of any kind, under or
subject to any written contract or agreement expressing the terms
and conditions of such trust; and if such person or persons so
receiving any warehouse receipt or elevator receipt, bill of lad-
ing or any document giving or purporting to give title to or the
right to possession of any goods, wares or merchandise or other
personal property of any kind shall, in violation of good faith,
fail, neglect or refuse to perform or fulfill the terms and condi-
tions of such trust as expressed in such written contract or agree-
ment, then and in every such case such person or persons so fail-
ing, neglecting or refusing to perform or fulfill the terms and
conditions of such trust shall, on being convicted thereof, be