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ing or permitting any employe or other person to sell or offer
for sale any beer (to which coloring matter or porteine has
been added) representing the same to be malt extract or porter
or other beverage, or any malt or spirituous liquor other than
by its proper name, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and punished by imprisonment for not longer than one year,
or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both fine
and imprisonment in the discretion of the court having juris-
diction.

Minors—Care and Protection of.

1888, art. 57, sec. 208. 1888, ch. 77.

317. Every agent, officer or representative of any institu-
tion, society or body, incorporated under the laws of this State
for the care, custody or protection of children or minors having
in his possession, custody or personal charge, any minor or
person under twenty-one years of age, for any purpose con-
nected with the bbjects of such institution, society or body,
shall be entitled to all the privileges and authority of a con-
servator of the peace; and any person, whether under the
claim or color of authority over the person of such minor as
parent, guardian or otherwise, or under any other color, pre-
tense or claim, who shall in any manner interfere with or
obstruct such agent, officer or representative in relation to his
possession, custody or personal charge of such minor shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and it shall be the duty of all officers
of police, policemen, constables and officers and officials of
every description having the authority to make arrests to
enforce this section in every particular.

1900, ch. 334, sec. 208 A.

318. Any person having in his custody or control a child
under the age of fourteen years who shall in any way dispose
of it with a view to its being employed as an acrobat, or a
gymnast, or a contortionist, or a circus rider, or a rope walker,
or in any exhibition of like dangerous character, or as a beggar
or mendicant, or street singer, or street musician, and any
person who shall take, receive, hire, employ, use, exhibit or
have in custody any child under the age last named for any of
the purposes herein enumerated shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and when convicted thereof shall be subject to
punishment by fine of not more than one hundred dollars or
by imprisonment for a term not exceeding ninety days in jail,
or both.