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voucher for goods, chattels or commodities as on deposit or
storage with or in the custody, or on the premises, or under the
control of such person or corporation, shall issue any other
receipt, acceptance of order or other voucher whatsoever for the
same, or any part thereof, until the said first issued instrument
shall have been returned and cancelled or destroyed; and no
person or corporation whatsoever, having issued or having out-
standing as aforesaid, any such receipt, acceptance of order or
other voucher aforesaid, and no agent or officer of any such
person or corporation shall part with, deliver or remove, or
permit to be delivered or removed the goods, chattels or com-
modities in such instrument named or described, or any part
thereof, except only to or by the holder of said instrument or
upon his order, and upon the presentation of said instrument
with his endorsement in every case, or without cancelling or
destroying said instrument in case of complete delivery or re-
moval, or endorsing thereon the quantity and description of
the goods, chattels or commodities delivered or removed, and
the names of the persons to whom delivered, or by whom re-
moved, in case such delivery or removal shall be partial only;
and any principal, person or corporation, or agent or officer
of any person or corporation wilfully violating this section or
any of the provisions thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
punishable by a fine of not less than one thousand nor more
than five thousand dollars in case of a corporation, and in the
case of an individual by a fine of not less than one hundred nor
more than five thousand dollars, and imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary for a period of not less than one year, nor more than
three years, in the discretion of the court; provided, however,
that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the
bona fide issuing of duplicate receipts, acceptances or other
vouchers aforesaid, with the word "duplicate" conspicuously
written or printed upon the face thereof, in the stead of any
original outstanding receipts, acceptances or other vouchers
aforesaid, which may have been lost, destroyed or mislaid, and
provided further, that nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to prohibit any warehouseman in any proceeding taken
for the enforcement of his warehouseman's lien, from deliver-
ing possession of the goods, wares, merchandise, chattels, com-
modities or other property sold in such proceeding to the pur-
chaser or purchasers thereof, without the production, surren-
der or cancellation of the outstanding receipt, acceptance of
order or other voucher for the property so sold.

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

Approved April 8, 1908.