FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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"84 A." If any person, with .intent to cheat or defraud, shall,
by any false or fraudulent representation, or by any false show
of baggage, goods or chattels, which are calculated to deceive
any hotel proprietor, keeper or manager, obtain lodging or
credit, or the use of any horse or vehicle or food and stabling
for a horse or horses, in any hotel in this State, or from the
keeper of any livery stable, and shall subsequently refuse,
decline or fail to pay for his credit, board or lodging, or use
of horse or food and stabling for horse furnished him, the
person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on

Defrauding
hotel
Keepers.

conviction, be sentenced ti pay a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars, or undergo an imprisonment in jail for a
term not exceeding three months, or both, or either, at the
discretion of the court.

" 84 B." Every person who shall, at any hotel, receive or

Penalty.

cause to be furnished any food or accommodation, for man or
beast, with intent to defraud the owner, keeper or proprietor
or manager of any hotel, or owner or keeper of any livery
stable, out of the value or price of such food or accommoda-
tion, and every person who shall obtain credit at any hotel or
livery stable by the use of any false pretense or device or by
depositing at such hotel any baggage or other chattel of value
of less than the amount of such credit or of the bill by such
person incurred with such fraudulent intent, and any person
who, after obtaining an accommodation, for man or beast, at
any hotel oi livery stable, shall abscond from such hotel or
livery stable, and shall surreptitiously remove his baggage or
property therefrom, without discharging the debt so aforesaid

Defrauding
keepers of
livery
stables.

incurred, shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by im-
prisonment in jail for a term not longer than three months,
or by a fine of not more- than one hundred dollars, or both, or
either, at the discretion of the court.

Approved April 6th, 1894.

Penalty.