FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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any one of the several counties of the State, then with the

clerk of the Circuit Court of such county, a paper writing

containing a description of such kegs, boxes, founts, bottles,

beer bottle crates, jugs or other vessels aforesaid, together

with the name or names of the owner or owners of the same,

placed or fixed on the same in any of the modes hereinbefore

mentioned, which said paper writing shall be signed by the

said owner, or, if there be more than one owner, by at least

one of them or by the president or other officer of any such

corporate owner, and shall be acknowledged by the person

signing the same as his act before any person competent to

take acknowledgments of deeds ; and said owner or owners

shall then publish a copy of said paper, writing, certified as

such by the clerk of the court with whom the same has been

filed, if the said business is conducted in the city of Balti-

more twice a week for two successive weeks, in some daily

newspaper published in said city, and if the said business is

conducted in any county then in some newspaper published

in said county, once a week for two successive weeks.

202. The said several clerks, mentioned in the preceding

section, shall record in some book of record in their custody,

respectively, all such paper writings filed with them, and

Record of
such

also copies of the said advertisements in the newspapers,

device.

certified to by the publishers of said newspapers in which

the same have been published ; and said respective clerks

shall furnish copies thereof duly certified by them in the

usual manner to any person who may apply therefor, and

shall receive for such recording and for such copies the fees

paid with respect to bills of sale ; and a certified copy of

the said paper writing and of the said advertisement, and

the said certificate of the said publishers oi the said news-

papers, when certified to under the hand of the clerk with

whom the same are of record, with the eeal of his office

attached, shall be evidence that the provisions of the pre-

ceding section have been complied with, and of the title of

the owner or owners named therein, to the said kegs, boxes,

bottled beer crates, founts, bottles, jugs or other said vessels

upon which the name or names of such owner or owners

may appear, as described in said paper writing.

203. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons,

co-partnership or body corporate hereafter, except with the

Unlawful

consent in writing, of the owner or owners thereof, to fill

for others
than

with mineral water, beer, porter or other beverages any such

owners to

founts, bottles, jugs, kegs or other vessels adapted to con-

use such
bottles, &c

tain liquids, mentioned in said section two hundred and one,

or to sell, dispose of, keep for sale or hire, or otherwise

trade or traffic in any such boxes, bottled beer crates, founts,