ART. 27] MINERAL WATERS AND BEVERAGES. 879

or persons sign the same for a partnership or corporation, as the
act of said partnership or corporation, before any person or
officer competent to take acknowledgment of deeds. The pub-
lication hereby required need only be a brief description, suffi-
cient for the identification of such name, names, marks or devices,
and need not contain a certified copy of the acknowledgment.
The provisions of sections 306 to 314 shall apply to all bottles,
kegs, boxes, trays, carriers, crates, founts, syphons, jugs, tins,
barrels, casks or any other vessels upon which said name or
names, marks or devices shall appear as aforesaid, whether or
not any of the same shall be in existence at the time of said
filing and publications.

1888, art. 27, sec. 202. 1882, ch. 491, sec. 2. 1892, ch. 262. 1902, ch. 245.

307. The said several clerks mentioned in the preceding
section shall record in some book of record in their custody,
respectively, all such descriptions filed with them, and also
copies of the said advertisement in the newspaper, certified to
by the publishers of said newspaper in which the same has
been published, and said respective clerks shall furnish copies
thereof duly certified by them in the usual manner to any
person who may apply therefor, and shall receive for such
recording and such copies the fees paid with respect to bills
of sale, and a certified copy of the said description and of the
said advertisement, and the said certificate of the said pub-
lishers of the said newspaper, when certified to under the
hand of the clerk with whom the same are of record, with the
seal of his office attached, shall be evidence that the provisions
of the preceding section have been complied with, and shall
be prima facie evidence of the title of the person, persons,
partnership or body corporate named therein to the said kegs,
boxes, trays, carriers, crates, founts, bottles, syphons, jugs,
tins, barrels, casks or any other vessels upon which the name
or names, marks or devices of such person, persons, partner-
ship or body corporate may appear as described in said
description.

Ibid. sec. 203. 1882, ch. 491, sec. 3. 1892, ch. 262. 1902, ch 245.

308. After any person, persons, partnership or body cor-
porate shall have filed and published his, her, its or their
description of such name or names, marks or devices in accord-
ance with the provisions of sections 306 to 314, it is hereby
declared to be unlawful for any or all other persons, partner-
ships and bodies corporate to fill in any way any kegs, boxes,