664 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 280

SEC. 134. Every person who shall at any hotel, Inn, boarding
house, hospital, sanitarium, 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, boarding house,
hospital or sanitarium by the use of any false pretense or device,
or by fraudulently depositing at such hotel, inn, boarding
house, hospital or sanitarium 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, boarding house, hospital or
sanitarium shall abscond or fraudulently depart or remove
his baggage therefrom without discharging the debt as aforesaid
incurred, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hun-
dred 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, in the discretion of the Court. And in
determination of any question arising under this section the
fact that such departure or removal was' without the knowledge
or consent of the proprietor or manager of such hotel, inn,
boarding house, hospital or sanitarium or the representa-
tives or agent of such proprietor or manager, shall be treated
as presumptive evidence that such departure or removal was
fraudulent. Nothing in this section shall apply to or affect
the prosecution of any offense which may have been committed
prior to the passage of this section, or the punishment pro-
vided for such offense.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the first day of June, nineteen hundred and eighteen.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 280.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 of Article 73, title
"Partnerships—Limited," of Bagby's Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of 1911, and to enact thirty sections in lieu there-
of to be known as Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 22A, 22B, 22C, 22D,
22E, 22F, 22G, 22H, uniform with the laws of other States.