ART. 27] FRAUD——ITINERANT VENDORS——MILLERS. 833

the sixty days' limit aforesaid shall be valid. No deposits
shall be paid over by the respective clerks of the courts afore-
said to licensees so long as there are any outstanding claims or
notices of claims against them, respectively, unless the clerk is
satisfied that such claims will not be prosecuted to final judg-
ment, or that no fine or penalty will be imposed.

1892, ch. 596, sec. 17.

162. It shall be the duty of the respective sheriffs, consta-
bles, police or prosecuting officers in each county and city in
this State to see that the provisions of the several sections of
this sub-title are complied with, and to prosecute for violations
of the same. All such officers shall have power to demand the
production of the proper State and local license from any itin-
erant vendor advertising or actually engaged in business, and
any failure to produce such license shall be prima facie evidence
against such vendor that he has cone.

Fraud—Millers Mixing Flour.

1888, art. 27, sec. 108. 1860, art. 30, sec. 134. 1704, ch. 16, sec. 6.
1816, ch. 76. 1878, ch. 375. 1880, ch. 9.

163. No master, owner, miller or other person properly
belonging to or otherwise owning any mill within this State
shall ask, demand or receive for grinding any quantity of wheat,
Indian corn or rye above one-eighth part of every bushel of
wheat, Indian corn or rye by him so ground as aforesaid,
under the penalty of fifty dollars for every such offense, one-
half to the use of the State and the other half to the informer,
to be recovered in the name of the State by action of debt
before any justice of the peace as other small debts are recov-
erable. In St. Mary's, Wicomico, Somerset and Worcester
counties, the sixth may be taken for grinding rye and corn.

Ibid. sec. 109. 1860, art. 30, sec. 135. 1805, ch. 82, sec. 1.

164. If any person shall mix, or cause to be mixed, any corn
meal or other flour with wheat flour, for the purpose of selling
or otherwise disposing of the same as wheat flour, or shall
send the same out of the State for the purpose, or with the
intent of selling or otherwise disposing of it, he, on conviction
thereof, shall forfeit and pay for each and every such offense a
sum not less than two hundred dollars, nor more than one
thousand dollars, one-half to the informer and the other half to
the State. And in case such offender shall be unable to pay