FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 142.

AN ACT to add a new section to the Code of Public General

Laws, article twenty-seven, title "Crimes and Punish-

ments," sub-title "False Pretenses."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the following section be, and is hereby added

New
section

to the Code of Public General Laws, article twenty-seven,

title "Crimes and Punishments," sub -title "False Pre-

tenses," to come in after section eighty-four, and to be known

as section eighty -four A.

84 A. Any person who shall by any false and fraudulent

representation in writing signed by him as to his own or his

partner's pecuniary responsibility, wealth or mercantile cor-

False pre-
tences.

respondence or connections, obtain any loan of money or of

property from any person, persons, co-partnership or corpo-

ration, and shall thereby defraud such person, persons,

co-partnership or corporation, or who shall cause or procure

another to make any false and fraudulent representation in

writing, signed by the person making the same, as to the

pecuniary responsibility, wealth or mercantile correspond-

ence, or connections of the person who shall cause or procure

such false representation to be made, or of any other person,

and shall thereby obtain any loan of money or of property

from any person, persons, co-partnership or corporation, and

shall thereby defraud such person, persons, co-partnership

or corporation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on

conviction thereof shall be sentenced to return the money

or property so fraudulently obtained, and shall be fined not

exceeding two thousand dollars, or shall be confined in the

jail of the county or the city of Baltimore, as the case may

be, not exceeding one year, or shall be both fined and im-

prisoned as aforesaid, in the discretion of the court.

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

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 16th, 1892.