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section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars,
one-half of which shall be paid to the informer, and upon failure
to pay said fine and cost of prosecution shall be committed to
jail for a period not exceeding ten days.

Health—Deleterious Candy or Cakes.

1888, art. 27, sec. 137. 1886, ch. 484, sec. 1.

221. No person shall manufacture or sell in this State candy
or cakes of any kind soever which contain any ingredient which
may be deleterious, injurious or poisonous to the consumer.

Ibid. sec. 138. 1886, ch. 484, sec. 2.

222. Each and every person who shall manufacture or sell
in this State candy or cakes of any kind soever which contain
any ingredient which may be deleterious, injurious or poisonous
to the consumer shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, ond, on con-
viction in a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined for
each and every offense a sum not less than fifty dollars nor
more than two hundred dollars.

Smith v. State, 68 Md. 169. Foster v. State, 71 Md. 553.

1890, ch 317, sec. 4 A.

223. If any person or corporation shall use terra alba, or
any poisonous or injurious drug or narcotic in the manufacture
or coloring of any candy or lozenges in this State, or if any
trader shall knowingly sell any candy or lozenges manufactured
either in or out of this State, knowing the same to contain
terra alba, or any poisonous or injurious drug or narcotic, or
to be colored with any poisonous or injurious drug or narcotic,
or with any poisonous substance, he, or if a corporation, it
and all its agents who shall knowingly violate any of the pro-
visions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon indictment and conviction shall be fined not
less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for
the first offense; and not less than five hundred dollars nor
more than one thousand dollars for the second offense, one-
half of said fine to be paid to the informer.

Ibid. sec. 4 B.

224. If any person shall be injured by the use of any such
adulterated or poisonous candy or lozenges, he shall be entitled
to recover in an action to be brought in any court of compe-
tent jurisdiction not less than fifty dollars as liquidated dam-