FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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tion, recipe, or other device, purporting to have been made

by a regular practicing physician, for any drugs, medicines,

spirituous or fermented liquors, he shall be deemed guilty of

a misdemeanor, and on conviction in any court in this State,

shall be sentenced to the jail, the House of Correction or

Penitentiary, for not less than six months nor more than

two years, in the discretion of the court. If upon trial of

any person, charged with, or indicted for, such misdemeanor,

it shall appear that he paid for, or offered or promised to

pay for, the drugs, medicine, spirituous liqueur or fermented

liquor obtained by means of such falsely made altered,

forged or counterfeited, order, paper, letter writing, pre-

scription, recipe or other device purporting to have been

made by a regular practicing physician, he shall not by

reason thereof be acquitted of such misdemeanor.

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

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 546.

AN ACT to repeal section two hundred and thirty -four of

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

title "Crimes and Punishments," sub-title ''Receiving

stolen goods, money or securities," and to re-enact the

same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section two hundred aud thirty -four of article

Repealed
and

twenty-seven of the Code of Public General Laws, title

re-enacted.

" Crimes and Punishments," sub-title" "Receiving Stolen

goods, money or securities," be and the same is hereby

repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

234. Every person who shall be convicted of the crime of

receiving any stolen money, goods or chattels knowing the

Recover-
ing stolen

same to be stolen, or of the crime of receiving any bond, bill

goods.

obligatory, bill of exchange, promissory note for the pay-

ment of money bank note, paper bill of credit, certificate

granted by or under the authority of this State, or the

United States, or any of them, knowing the same to be stolen,

shall restore such money, goods or chattels or thiugs taken

and received to the owner thereof, or make restitution to

the value of the whole, or such part as shall not be restored

and shall undergo a confinement in the Penitentiary for not

less than eighteen months and not more than ten (10) years,

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