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844 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27
remove or permit to be delivered or removed the goods,
chattels or commodities in such instrument named or described,
or any part thereof, except only to or by the holder of said
instrument, or upon his order, and upon the presentation of
said instrument with his endorsement in every case, or without
cancelling or destroying said instrument in case of complete
delivery or removal or endorsing thereon the quantity and
description of the goods, chattels or commodities, delivered or
removed, and the names of the persons to whom delivered, or
by whom removed in case such delivery or removal shall be
partial only; and any principal person or corporation or agent
or officer of any person or corporation wilfully violating this
section or any of the provisions thereof shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than one thou-
sand nor more than five thousand dollars in the case of a cor-
poration, and in the case of an individual by a fine of not less
than one hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, and
imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of not less than
one year, nor more than three years in the discretion of the
court; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be
construed to prohibit the bona fide issuing of duplicate receipts,
acceptances or other vouchers aforesaid, with the word "dupli-
cate" conspicuously written or printed upon the face thereof,
in the stead of any original outstanding receipts, acceptances
or other vouchers aforesaid, which may have been lost, destroyed
or mislayed.
State v. Bryant, 63 Md. 66.
1890, ch. 223, see. 119 A.
195. If any person entrusted with any money, drafts or
checks, as advances against any grain or other merchandise
purchased and stored in any elevator in the city of Baltimore
or elsewhere, and for which certificates or receipts have been
turned into such elevator or delivered to the parties with whom
the same is stored to be shipped and transported from the city
of Baltimore to the purchaser of said grain or other mer-
chandise, shall for his own benefit and in violation of good
faith neglect or refuse to deliver to the party so entrusting him
with said money, drafts or checks, the draft or bills of
exchange, with the documents for the shipment of the said
cargo of grain or other merchandise, and the policies of insur-
ance upon said grain or other merchandise, as soon as the
shipment is completed and bills of lading delivered therefor,
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