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sitter employed, engaged or allowed in and about said premises
shall be considered a separate offense under said section.

Fraud—Bills of Lading.

Ibid. sec. 87 1876, ch. 262, sec. 5.

118. No person or corporation, or agent or officer of any
person or corporation in this State shall issue any bill of
lading, receipt, acknowledgement 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 said goods, chattels and commodities shall have
been actually received to be transported by such person or
corporation in the one case, or shall be actually in the pos-
session 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 person or corporation, or any agent or officer
whatsoever, of any person or corporation wilfully violating the
provisions or any provision of this section 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.

Fraud—Breach of Trust, Bills of Lading, Elevator or
Warehouse Receipts.

1890, ch 399, sec. 87 A.

119. If any person or persons shall on his or their own
behalf, or shall for or on behalf of any other person or per-
sons, or shall for or on behalf of any firm, copartnership or
corporation, receive, accept or take in trust from any person,
persons, firm, copartnership or corporation any warehouse
receipt or elevator receipt, or bill of lading or any document
giving or purporting to give title to or the right to possession
of any goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property
of any kind, under or subject to any written contract or agree-
ment expressing the terms and condition of such trust; and if
such person or persons so receiving any warehouse receipt or
elevator receipt, bill of lading or any document giving or pur-
porting to give title to or the right to possession of any goods,
wares or merchandise or other personal property of any kind