822 CEIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

city, street and number of house or place of business of such
purchaser, and any agent, consignee or commission merchant
who shall refuse or neglect to comply with any provisions of
this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof shall be punished by a fine of five dollars for
each and every offense, together with the costs of prosecution.

Fraud—Conversion of Money or Securities.

1888, art. 27, sec. 93. 1867, ch. 386, sec. 2.

130. If any money or security for the payment of money
shall be entrusted to any banker, broker, merchant, attorney
or other agent, with any direction in writing to apply such,
money or any part thereof, or the proceeds or any part of the
proceeds of such security for any purpose specified in such
direction, and he shall, in violation of good faith and contrary
to the purpose so specified, in anywise convert to his own use
or benefit such money, security or proceeds, or any part thereof
respectively, every such offender shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and being convicted thereof, shall be imprisoned in
the penitentiary for a term of not more than ten years nor less
than three years, and be fined not more than five thousand nor
less than one thousand dollars; and if any chattel or valuable
security, or any power of attorney for the sale or transfer of
any share or interest, or certificates of any share or interest in
any stock of this or any other State or of the United States, or
of any foreign State, or in any funds or capital stock of any
body corporate, company or society, shall be entrusted to any
banker, broker, merchant, attorney or other agent, for safe
custody, or for any special purpose without any authority to
sell, negotiate, transfer or pledge, and he shall, in violation of
good faith and contrary to the object or purpose for which such
chattel or security or power of attorney shall have been entrusted
to him, sell, negotiate, transfer, pledge or in any manner con-
vert to his own use or benefit such chattel or security or the
proceeds of the same or any part thereof, or the share or the
interest in the stock or fund to which such power of attorney
shall relate, or any part thereof, every such offender shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be
liable to the punishments which the court may award, as here-
inbefore mentioned.

Ibid. sec. 94. 1867, ch. 386, sec. 3.

131. Nothing contained in the preceding section relating to
agents shall affect any trustee in or under any instrument what-