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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

4 A. That 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 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

Adulterat-
ed candy

any poisonous or injurious drug or narcotic, or to be colored with

any poisonous substance, he, or if a corporation, it and all its

agents who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of this

act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indict-

ment 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.

4 B. And be it enacted, If any person shall be injured by the

Damages.

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 competent jurisdiction, not less than fifty dollars as liquidated

damages, and such other and further actual damages as he may

prove.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.

CHAPTER 318.

AN ACT to add an additional section to the Code of Public Gen-

eral Laws of Maryland, article thirty-five, title "Evidence," to

be known as "section sixty-one."

SECTION 1, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

To add

That the following section be and is hereby added to article thirty-

five, of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Evi-

dence," to follow section sizty, viz :

61. In any suit, action or proceeding at law now depending or

hereafter to be instituted in any of the courts of law of this

State, wherein a transcript of the record of any cause in any other

court in this State might be offered in evidence, it shall be suffi-

cient to produce the original papers and proceedings in said last

Evidence.

mentioned cause, together with a transcript under seal' of the

docket entries therein and offer the same in evidence, and the same

when so produced and offered in evidence shall have the same

effect to all intents and purposes as a transcript of the record under

the seal of the court wherein the same are, and such production

may be had by any party to a suit, action or proceeding upon a