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ness, and shall pay therefor the sum of fifty dollars ; and in

case any agent, solicitor or runner shall be used or

employed, then an additional license of fifty dollars shall

be taken out and paid for each agent, solicitor or runner, so

used and employed.

34 B. Any person conducting the business specified in

the preceding section or acting as agent, solicitor or runner

Penalty.

without having first procured the license as therein required,

shall on conviction thereof be subject to a fine of not less

than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dol-

lars, or shall be imprisoned in jail for not less than six

weeks nor more than one year, or both fine and imprison-

ment 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 April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER C28.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section

fifty-nine, of article twenty-seven of the Code of Public

General Laws of Maryland, title "Crimes and Punish-

ments," sub-title "Destroying Property Maliciously," as

enacted by the act of 1890, chapter 498.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section fifty-nine of article twenty-seven,

Amend-
ment.

of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title

"Crimes aud Punishments," sub-title "Destroying Prop-

erty Maliciously," as enacted by the act of 1890, chapter

498, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so

as to read as follows ;

SEC. 59. Any person, his aiders, abettors, and counsel-

lors, who shall be convicted of the crime of breaking into,

Breaking
into

or entering by force, any railroad car then being in the pos-

railroad
cars

session or use of any railroad company in this State, or

then being upon the tracks of any railroad company in

this State shall, in the discretion of the court, be imprisoned

in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than ten

years, or in the House of Correction not exceeding three

years, or in jail, not exceeding one year.

Approved April 7th, 1892.