WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 240.

AN ACT for the protection of persons engaged in

hermetically sealing or canning fruits, vegetables

or other articles of food in this State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, If any person shall falsely make,

alter, forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure

Falsely make.

to be falsely made, altered, forged or counterfeited,

alter, &c.

or shall willingly aid or assist in falsely making,

altering, forging or counterfeiting, or shall utter or

pass, knowing it to be falsely made, altered, forged

or counterfeited, any metallic check, card or other

substance or device used or intended to be used by

any person engaged in hermetically sealing or can-

ning fruits, vegetables or other articles of food in

this State, as an evidence of indebtedness from or

by any person engaged in preserving food as afore-

said, to any person employed by him, her or them,

or used as an evidence or record of the State of

accounts existing between the said employer and

any of his employees, shall be deemed a felon, and

on conviction in any court in this State be sentenced

Penalty.

to the penitentiary for not less than one nor more

than five years.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, If any person shall steal,

take and carry away any metallic check, card

or other device issued or delivered by any employer

or employers in this State to his, her or their em-

ployees, having stamped, written or otherwise indi-

cated thereon any numerals or other characters

intended to indicate the sum or sums which may be

due from the said employers to the said employees,

he or she shall be deemed a felon, and on conviction

thereof shall be punished in the same manner and

How punished

to the same extent as if he or she had been convicted

of stealing, taking and carrying away lawful money

of the United States of the same legal value as the

sum or sums which the said metallic check, card or

other device may represent as being due from the

said employer or employers to any employee or

employees, whether the same shall have been issued

and delivered to any employee, or only stamped or

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