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any of them, or other agricultural products is proposed to be
made, a written statement of the kind of seed or agricultural
product offered for sale or traffic, with a full description of the
same and the advantages claimed for the same over other seed
or products of the same variety, to which written statement
shall be attached the name and place of residence of the person
or persons, company or firm offering for sale or traffic such
seeds or products.

1888, art 27, sec. 114. 1888, ch. 415, sec. 2.

169. Any person or persons, company, firm or agent violating
the provisions of the foregoing section shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before a justice of
the peace, on a warrant to be issued in the name of the State
of Maryland, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than
one hundred dollars or imprisoned in the county jail for not
less than three nor more than six months, or be both fined and
imprisoned in the discretion .of the justice or the court, if the
accused demand a trial by jury before the circuit court.

Ibid. sec. 115. 1888, ch. 415, sec. 3.

170. Any person or persons, firm or company, offering for
barter, sale or traffic any oats, wheat, rye, corn, clover seed or
other agricultural product, representing them or any of them as
possessing qualities or productiveness superior to the same
varieties in general cultivation, and selling the same on credit,
or in any way bartering or trafficking in the same, shall in each
and every case state in the note or bill of exchange taken for
the same the kind or variety of the seed sold or bartered, with
a succinct statement of the advantages or superior qualities
claimed for such seed or product, and the terms on which the
same is or are bartered or sold; and the note taken shall con-
tain a general warranty as to the kind, quality and value of
the article sold.

Ibid. sec. 116. 1888, ch. 415, sec. 4.

171. Any person who shall violate either of the provisions
of the foregoing section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction on indictment in the courts of this State
having criminal jurisdiction of the offense shall be fined not
less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand
dollars, or imprisoned in the penitentiary for not less than one
nor more than five years.