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AET. 27] BREACH OF TRUST—HOTEL—LIVERY STABLE. 817
shall, in violation of good faith, fail, neglect or refuse to per-
form or fulfill the terms and conditions of such trust as expressed
in such written contract or agreement, then and in every such
case such person or persons so failing, neglecting or refusing
to perform or fulfill the terms and conditions of such trust shall,
on being convicted thereof, be imprisoned in the penitentiary
for a term not more than ten years nor less than one year, or be
fined not more than five thousand dollars nor less than five
hundred dollars, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Fraud—Boarding House, Hotel and Livery Stable Keepers.
1892, ch. 42, 1894, ch. 418. 1898, ch. 287, sec. 84A.
120. Every person who shall by any false or fraudulent rep-
resentations, or by any false show of baggage, goods or chat-
tels, which are calculated to deceive any hotel proprietor,
keeper or manager, obtain lodging or credit, or the use of any
horse or vehicle, of food or stabling for a horse or horses in any
hotel in this State, or from the keeper of any livery stable, and
shall subsequently refuse, decline or fail to pay for his credit,
board or lodging, or use of horse or food or stabling for horse
furnished him, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-
viction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one
hundred dollars or by imprisonment in jail for a term of not
less than one month nor more than six months, or by both such
fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
Ibid. Ibid. sec. 84 B.
121. Every person who shall at any hotel, inn, boarding
house or livery stable receive or cause to be furnished any food
or accommodation for man or beast, and shall fraudulently fail
to pay for the same, and every person who shall obtain credit
at any hotel, inn or boarding house by the use of any false
pretense or device, or by fraudulently depositing at such hotel,
inn or boarding house any baggage or property of value less
than the amount of such credit or of the bill by such person
incurred; and every person who, after obtaining credit or
accommodation at any hotel, inn or boarding house, shall
abscond or fraudulently depart or remove his baggage there-
from without discharging the debt as aforesaid incurred shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or
by imprisonment in jail for a term of not less than one month
nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment in the discretion of the court.
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