ART. 27] FRAUD—MORTGAGORS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. 171

1892, ch. 596.

107 s. It shall be the duty of the respective sheriffs, consta-
bles, police or prosecuting officers in each county and city in this
State, to see that the provisions of the several sections of this sub-
title are complied with, and to prosecute for violations of the
same. All such officers shall have power to demand the produc-
tion of the proper State and local license from any itinerant
vendor advertising or actually engaged in business, and any
failure to produce such license shall be prima facie evidence
against such vendor that he has none.

Fraud-Mortgagors of Personal Property.

1894, ch. 315.

111. Any mortgagor of personal property in possession of the
same, or any purchaser of personal property under an unrecorded,
conditional, written contract, in possession of said property, or
any execution debtor in possession of personal property levied on
and taken in execution, who, in the case of mortgaged personal
property, without the consent of the mortgagee or his assigns,
first bad and obtained in writing, or who, in the case of the pur-
chaser of personal property under an unrecorded, conditional,
written contract, without the consent first had and obtained in
writing of the conditional vendor in said contract, or his assigns,
or who, in the case of personal property levied on and taken in
execution, without the consent of the execution creditor, his
assigns or lawfully authorized agents, first had and obtained in
writing, and with intent to defraud the mortgagee or his assigns,
and to defeat his or their lien under said mortgage, or with intent
to defraud the said conditional vendor of personal property in
an unrecorded, conditional, written contract, or his assigns, or
with intent to defraud the execution creditor or his assigns, and
defeat his or their lien under said execution, shall remove any of
the personal property so mortgaged or purchased under said
unrecorded, conditional, written contract, or levied on and taken
in execution as aforesaid, as the case may be, beyond the limits
of the city or county where it was located when so mortgaged
or purchased under said unrecorded, conditional, written contract,
or levied on and taken in execution, or who, with intent as afore-
said, removes, secretes, hypothecates, destroys or sells the same,