WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 725
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CHAPTER 458.
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AN ACT to repeal section forty-nine of article
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thirty of the Code of Public General Laws of the
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State of Maryland, entitled " Crimes and Punish-
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ments," and re-enact the same so as to read as
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follows :
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
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of Maryland, That section forty-nine of article
thirty of the Code of Public General Laws of the
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Repealed and
re-enacted.
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State of Maryland, entitled " Crimes and Punish-
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ments," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
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enacted so as to read as follows :
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SEC. 49. If any cashier, servant, agent or clerk, or
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any person employed for the purpose or in the
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When deem-
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capacity of cashier, servant, agent or clerk to any
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ed guilty.
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person or to any body corporate, shall, by virtue of
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such employment, receive or take into his possession
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any money, goods, bill, note, bond, check, evidence
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of debt, or other valuable security or effects, for and
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in the name or on account of his employer, and shall
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fraudulently embezzle, secrete or make way with
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the same, or any part thereof, he shall be deemed
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guilty of having feloniously stolen the same from his
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employer, for whose use or in whose name, or on
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whose account the same was or were delivered to or
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taken into the possession of such cashier, servant,
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clerk or other person employed, although such
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money, goods, bill, bond, note, check, evidence of
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debt or other valuable security or effects, was, or
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were not otherwise received into the possession of
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such employer than by the actual possession of his
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cashier, servant or clerk, or other person so employed;
and every such offender, his adviser, aider, producer
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or abettor, shall, on conviction thereof, be sentenced
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to the penitentiary for not less than five nor more
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than fifteen years. In every indictment for a vio-
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lation of this section, when the offence shall relate
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to coin or notes circulating as money, it shall be
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Not to speci-
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sufficient to allege the embezzlement to be of money,
without specifying any particular coin or notes cir-
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fy coin.
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