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ART. 27] FRAUD—UPON TURNPIKES—STORAGE RECEIPTS. 843
1900, ch. 398, sec. 119 K.
192. Every person, firm, corporation or association guilty
of a violation of any of the provisions of sections 184 to 191,
inclusive, shall upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum
not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the
county or city jail not exceeding one year, or both, at the dis-
cretion of the court.
Fraud—Upon Turnpikes:
1890, ch. 442.
193. If any person or persons shall, with intent to defraud
any turnpike or other company authorized by law to receive
tolls for use of its roads, pass through any private gate or bars,
or along any grounds near said road, to avoid any tollgate and
escape payment of tolls, or shall practice any fraudulent means
to lessen and avoid the payment of any just tolls, or shall refuse
to pay tolls he is bound by law to pay, each and every such
person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than one nor more than twenty-
five dollars, and upon failure to pay said fine shall be impris-
oned not more than five days; provided, however, that nothing
herein contained shall prohibit persons from passing upon any
turnpike or toll road from one point to another between the
gates upon said pike or road, nor shall prohibit persons own-
ing lands adjacent to any tollgate from using or crossing the
same for their own private purpose.
Fraud—Warehouse, Storage and Elevator Receipts.
1888, art. 27, sec. 119 1876, ch. 262, sec. 6
194. No warehouseman or corporation or person whatsoever
having issued or caused to be issued or having outstanding
and issued by any agent or officer of such person or corpora-
tion as aforesaid any receipt, acceptance of order or other
voucher for goods, chattels or commodities as on deposit or
storage with or in the custody or on the premises, or under
the control of such person or corporation shall issue any other
receipt, acceptance of order or other voucher whatsoever for
the same, or any part thereof, until the said first issued instru-
ment shall have been returned and cancelled or destroyed;
and no person or corporation whatsoever having issued or
having outstanding, as aforesaid, any such receipt, acceptance
of order or other voucher aforesaid, and no agent or officer of
any such person or corporation shall part with, deliver or
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