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goods or chattels or any other valuable thing, shall be guilty of
felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be punished by
imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more
than ten years.

1890, ch. 98.

257 C. Any person who with intent to extort money or procure
other profit, shall falsely accuse or threaten to accuse another of
any crime, or of anything which if the accusation were true
would tend to bring him into contempt or disrepute, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in
jail or the house of correction not exceeding two years.

Trade—Trading Stamps.

1898, ch 307.

263 A. No person or association of persons shall either directly
or indirectly, by agent or otherwise, use or hold for use in any
way, or sell any stamp, commonly called a trading stamp, or any
ticket, or check, or any written or printed promise or assurance,
express or implied, or any other scheme or device for the sale,
barter or trade of any goods, wares or merchandise, holding out
as an inducement for any such sale, barter or trade, the giving
or issuing of any such stamp, ticket, check, promise, assurance,
scheme or device, which stamp, ticket, check, promise, assurance,
scheme or device is to be or may be presented to or redeemed by
some person or association of persons other than those making
the sale, barter or trade aforesaid, the holder of said stamp, ticket,
check, promise, assurance, scheme or device for presentment or
redemption getting or receiving in exchange therefor any gift,
prize or gratuity, or anything uncertain, undetermined or un-
known to the purchaser of said goods, wares or merchandise at
the time of the purchase thereof.

Ibid

263 B. No person or association of persons shall, either directly
or indirectly by agent or otherwise, use or hold for use, or sell
any stamp, commonly called a trading stamp, or any ticket,
check, promise or assurance, express or implied, or any other
scheme or device of the kind or character described in the pre-
ceding section of this article, and thereby prohibited to be used