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LAWS, OF MARYLAND.

horse or vehicle, or food or 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 or stabling for
horse furnished him, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more
than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in jail for a
term of not less than one month nor more than six months, or
by both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the
court.

84 B. Every person who shall at any hotel, inn, boarding

Guilty of mis-
demeanor.

house, or livery stable, receive or cause to be furnished any
food or accommodation for man or beast, and shall fraudulently
fail to pay for the same, and every person who shall .obtain
credit at any hotel, inn or boarding house by the use of any
false pretense or device, or by fraudulently depositing at such
hotel, inn or boarding house any baggage or property of value
less than the amount of such credit or of the bill by such per-
son incurred ; and every person who after obtaining credit or
accommodation at any hotel, inn or boarding house shall abscond
or fraudulently depart or remove his baggage therefrom with-
out discharging the debt as aforesaid incurred, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be pun-
ished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, or by im-
prisonment in jail for a term of not less than one month nor
more than six months, or by both such fine or imprisonment, at
the discretion of the court.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1898.

CHAPTER 288.
AN ACT to change the name and amend the charter of the
"Mount Yernon Mission and Kindergarten Association of
Baltimore," incorporated by the General Assembly of Mary,
land by an Act, Chapter 523 of the Acts of 1894, entitled
"An Act to incorporate the Mount Yernon Mission and
Kindergarten Association of Baltimore," and to add thereto
a new section, numbered "2A."

Repeal.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted vy the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sections one and two of the Act passed at the
January session of the General Assembly of Maryland, 1894,