40 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

cessive weeks, in some daily newspapers published in Baltimore
city, if the said principal office or place of business (or agency
as the place may be) is located in said city, or if the said prin-
cipal office or place of business (or agency as the case may be),
is located in any of the counties of this State, then in some
newspaper published in said county once a week, for two suc-
cessive weeks. The description of the name or names, marks
or devices, before being filed as aforesaid, shall be signed by
the person or persons filing the same, or in case of a partner-
ship, by one or more of the partners, or in case of a corpora-
tion, by one of its officers or one of its managers, and shall be
acknowledged by the person or persons signing the same as the
act of said person or persons, or if said person or persons sign
the same for a partnership or corporation, as the act of said
partnership or corporation, before any person or officer com-
petent to take acknowledgment of deeds. The publication
hereby required need only be a brief description, sufficient 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.

1892, ch. 262. 1902, ch. 245. 1906, ch. 47.

808. After any person, persons, partnership or body corpor-
ate shall have filed and published his, her, its or their descrip-
tion of such name or names, marks or devices in accordance
with the provisions of sections 306 to 314, it is hereby declared
to be unlawful for any or all other persons, partnerships and
bodies corporate to fill in any way any kegs, boxes, trays, car-
riers, crates, founts, bottles, syphons, jugs, tins, barrels, casks
or any other vessels upon which such name or names, or other
murks or devices shall be printed, branded, stamped, stencilled,
engraved, etched, blown, impressed or otherwise produced,
with mineral, soda or aerated waters, wine, beer, porter, ale,
cider, ginger ale, small beer, lager beer, weiss beer or other
beverage, or with milk, cream or their by-products, including
ice cream, or to deface, erase, obliterate, cover up or otherwise