ART. 60] MORTGAGES. 93

any service medal, or imitate or cause to be imitated, or issue, or
sell any fac-simile or imitation of the same, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof in any court
-having criminal jurisdiction in the State of Maryland, or before
any justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in the county
or city where the offense has been committed, be punished by
imprisonment in the county or city jail for not less than six
months nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than
fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, or by both fine and
imprisonment.

ARTICLE LXVI.

MORTGAGES.

	4. When preferred to previous judgments or decrees; pro- viso. 26. Annual crops of debtor not to pass with mortgage. 27. Agreement for rental of said crops; appointment of ap- praisers by court.	28 Right to distrain for rental; pro- visos. 29. Defective mortgages and assign- ments of mortgages since 1898 made valid.

1900. ch. 393.

4. Whenever lands or chattels real are sold and conveyed,
and a mortgage is given by the purchaser at the same time to
secure the payment of the purchase money, in whole or in
part, such mortgage shall be preferred to any previous judg-
ment or decree for the payment of money which may have
been obtained against such purchaser, whether the mortgage
is given to the vendor of the property so purchased or to a
third party who advances the purchase money in whole or in
part; provided, such mortgage recite that the sum so secured
is in whole or part the purchase money of the property pur-
chased; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall
be held or construed to affect existing rights.