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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 245.

corporation, by one of its officers or one of its managers, and
shall be acknowledged by the person or persons signing the
same as the act of said person or persons, or if said person or
persons sign the same for a partnership or corporation, as the
act of said partnership or corporation, before any person or
officer competent to take acknowledgment of deeds. The
publication hereby required need only be a brief description,
sufficient for the identification of such name, names, marks or
devices, and need not contain a certified copy of the acknowl-
edgment. The provisions of this Act shall apply to all bottles,
kegs, boxes, trays, carriers, crates, founts, syphons, jugs, tins,
barrels, casks or any other vessels upon which said name or
names, marks or devices shall appear as aforesaid, whether or
not any of the same shall be in existence at the time of said
filing and publications.

Record to be
kept of all
such
descriptions
etc.

202. The said several clerks mentioned in the preceding
section shall record in some book of record in their custody,
respectively, all such descriptions tiled with them, and also
copies of the said advertisement in the newspaper, 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 such copies the fees paid with respect to bills
of sale, and a certified copy of the said descriptions and of the
said advertisement, and the said certificate of the said pub-
lishers of the said newspapers, when certified to under the
hand of the clerk with whom the same are of record, with
the seal of his office attached, shall be evidence that the pro-
visions of the preceding section have been complied with, and
shall be prima facie evidence of the title of the person,
persons, partnership or body corporate named therein to the
said kegs, boxes, trays, carriers, crates, founts, bottles, syphons,
jugs, tins, barrels, casks, or any other vessels upon which the
name or names, marks or devices of such person, persons,
partnership or body corporate may appear as described in said
description.

Unlawful to
use any
keg, box,
trap, etc ,
with private
mark without
written
consent.

203. After any person, persons, partnership or body corpo-
rate shall nave tiled and published his/her, its or their descrip-
tion of such name or. names, marks or devices in accordance
with the preceding provisions of this Act, it is hereby declared
to be unlawful for any or all other persons, partnerships and
bodies corporate to fill in any way any kegs, boxes, trays,
carriers, crates, founts, bottles, syphons, jugs, tins, barrels,
casks or any other vessels upon which such name or names or
other marks or devices shall be printed, branded, stamped,