ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

other seed or products of the same variety, to
which written statement shall be attached the
name and place of residence of the person or
persons, company or firm, offering for sale or
traffic such seeds or products.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person or

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persons, company, firm or agent violating the
provisions of the foregoing section shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof before a justice of the peace, on a war-
rant to be issued in the name of the State of
Maryland, shall be fined not less than fifty nor
more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned in
the county jail for not less than three nor more
than six months, or be both fined and imprisoned
in the discretion of the justice or the court, if
the accused demand a trial by jury before the
circuit court.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any person
or persons, firm or company, offering for bar-

Pined and im-
prisoned.

ter, sale or traffic any oats, wheat, rye, corn,
clover seed, or other agricultural product repre-
senting them, or any of them, as possessing
qualities or productiveness superior to the same
varieties in general cultivation, and selling the
same on credit, or in any way bartering or
trafficking in the same, shall in each and every
case state in the note or bill of exchange taken
for the same the kind or variety of the seed sold
or bartered, with a succinct statement of the
advantages or superior qualities claimed for
such seed or products, and the terms on which
the same is bartered or sold ; and the note taken
shall contain a general warranty as to the kind,
quality and value of the article sold.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That any person

Shall state
kind and va-
riety.

who shall violate either of the provisions of the
foregoing section shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and, upon conviction or indictment in
the courts of this state having criminal juris-
diction of the offence, shall be fined not less
than five hundred dollars nor more than one
thousand dollars, or imprisoned in the peni-
tentiary for not less than one nor more than
five years.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That any person
or persons, firm, corporation, agent or agents,

Penalty for
violation.