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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland of 1904, title " Crimes and Punishments,"
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CHAP. 376
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sub-title "False Pretenses," be and the same is hereby
amended by the addition of a new section, to follow imme-
diately after Section 115, and to be known and designated
as Seetion 115 A, and to read as follows :
Section 115 A. Whenever any loan of money shall be
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obtained or property purchased by aid of such statement in
writing referred to in the preceding section, and in said
statement the party be charged shall state that he conducts
a specific kind of business, and keeps books of account of
said business, then, if at the expiration of any term of credit
obtained by him in so purchasing said property, he shall
fail to pay for the same, within sixty days thereafter, he
shall at all times during the period of ninety days subse-
quent to such failure to pay, upon the request of the persons
from whom said property was purchased, or their agents duly
accredited in writing, produce upon notice of five days his
said books of account, and each and every one of them
mentioned or described in said statement, and permit the
persons from whom the said property was purchased, or
their agents duly accredited in writing, to fully examine such
books of account, and each and every one of them men-
tioned or described in said statement, and to make copies of
any part thereof; upon such request being made, failure
to produce said books of account, and each and every one
of them mentioned or described in said statement, shall be
presumptive evidence that each and every pretense relating
to the purchaser's means or ability to pay in said statement
contained were false at the time of making said statement,
and were known to the purchaser to be false.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 3, 1906.
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