ART. 27] MINERAL WATERS, BEER, PORTER, ETC. 189

names of the owner or owners thereof shall appear thereon by
being impressed, stamped, engraved, cut, stencilled or in any
manner affixed or placed thereon, and if the owner or owners
thereof shall have complied with and done the acts mentioned in
section two hundred and one of this article, unless the same shall
have been purchased from the owner or owners thereof, and not
from any person claiming to be an agent or employe of the
owner; and it shall be unlawful for any person wilfully to mar,
erase or destroy the name or names, mark or marks on, or wil-
fully to break, destroy or otherwise injure any of the articles
mentioned in this section; and any person or persons who shall
do any of the acts forbidden by this section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined, for each of said offenses relating to said founts, the sum of
forty dollars ($40) for each separate fount with regard to which
the offense shall have been committed; for each and every bottle
or box, with respect to which the offense shall have been com-
mitted, the sum of fifty cents; and for each and every jug, keg,
or other vessel or bottled beer crate, with respect to which the
offense shall have been committed, the sum of three dollars.

1892, ch. 262.

204. If any person shall be found to be in possession of any
one or more of the several articles mentioned in section two hun-
dred and one of this article, and the person or persons or body
corporate, the name or names of whom have been placed thereon
by any of the methods mentioned in said section, have complied
with its provisions, and the person so found to be in possession
thereof, shall be charged with any of the offenses mentioned in
the preceding section, then such possession shall be prima fame
evidence that he has been guilty of said offense.

Ibid.

205. If the owner or owners of any such fount, bottle, jug,
keg, or other vessel, bottled beer crate or box, mentioned in section
two hundred and one of this article, who has or have complied
with the provisions of said section, or his, her, its or their officer,
agent or employe shall make an affidavit before any justice of the
peace, and sign the same, asserting that he, she or they has or
have reason to believe and does or do believe that any person or