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performance of such labor be accepted by such person as a con-
dition upon which said food or lodging is given and received;
and if any person refuses or neglects, when so required, to per-
form such labor suited to his age, strength and capacity, in return
for the food or lodging so asked for and received by him, within
the time above specified, he shall be deemed a vagrant and be
punishable as such.

II.
JURISDICTION, PROCEDURE AND SENTENCE.

Indictments—Forgery and False Pretenses.

1898, ch. 120.

291 A. In every indictment for robbery, larceny or embezzle-
ment of any kind, when the offense shall relate to money, and
in every indictment for obtaining money by false pretenses, or
for receiving stolen money, or for any kind of fraudulent con-
version of money, and in every other indictment, whenever it
shall become necessary to make any averment as to money, it
shall be sufficient to describe said money as so much current
money, or so many dollars, or dollars and cents, current money,
without specifying any particular coins, or notes, or certificates,
circulating as money, or other species of money; and such alle-
gation, so far as regards the description of the money, shall be
sustained by proof of any amount of coin, or notes or certificates
circulating as money or other species of money, although the
particular species of coin, or notes or certificates circulating as
money, or other species of money, of which said amount was
composed, shall not be proved.

State v. Blizzard, 70 Md. 388-9.

Indictments—Selling Liquor.

1890, ch. 429. 1890, ch. 492.

291 B. In any indictment for the unlawful sale or disposition
of spirituous or fermented liquors or lager beer, it shall not be
necessary to specify the particular variety, provided the indict-
ment sets forth an unlawful sale or disposition of intoxicating
liquor, but the defendant on application to1 the State's attorney
before trial, may obtain a statement of the particular variety of
liquor expected to be proved.