362 BILLS OF LADING AND STORAGE RECEIPTS. [ART. 14

delivered out of the custody of the person or corporation to be
charged or bound by the same, or of his or its agent or officer
aforesaid.

1888, art. 14, sec 5 1876, ch. 262, sec. 5.

9. No person or corporation, or agent or officer of any per-
son or corporation in this State, shall issue any. bill of lading,
receipt, acknowledgment or voucher whatsoever, for goods,
chattels or commodities of any kind to be transported on land
-or water, or on both, or any receipt, acceptance of an order or
other voucher for goods, chattels or commodities, as on storage
or deposit in this State, until and unless the whole of the said
goods, chattels and commodities shall have been actually
received to be transported by such person of corporation in the
one case, or shall be actually in the possession or custody, or
upon the premises, or under the absolute and exclusive control
of such person or corporation in the other case at the time
when such instrument shall be issued; and any principal; per-
son or corporation, or any agent or officer whatsoever, of any
person or corporation, wilfully violating this section, or any of
the provisions thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not less
than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars, in the
discretion of the court.
State v. Bryant, 63 Md. 66.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1876, ch. 262, sec. 6.

10. No warehouseman or corporation or person whatsoever
having issued or caused to be issued or having outstanding,
and issued by any agent or officer of such person or corpora-
tion as aforesaid, any receipt, acceptance of order or other
voucher for goods, chattels or commodities as on deposit or
storage with or in the custody or on the premises, or under
the control of such person or corporation, shall issue any other
receipt, acceptance of order or other voucher whatsoever for
the same, or any part thereof until the said first issued instru-
ment shall have been returned and cancelled or destroyed; and
no person or corporation whatsoever having issued or hav-
ing outstanding, as aforesaid, any such receipt, acceptance
of order or other voucher aforesaid, and no agent or officer of
any such person or corporation shall part with, deliver or
remove or permit to be delivered or removed, the goods,
chattels or commodities in such instrument named or described,