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(c) Expose to public view for sale, manufacture, or other-
wise, or to sell, give or have in possession for sale, for gift or
for use for any purpose, any substance, being an article of mer-
chandise, or receptacle, or thing for holding or carrying mer-
chandise, upon or to which shall have been produced or attached
any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield, in order to ad-
vertise, call attention to, decorate, mark or distinguish such
article or substance.

SEC. 74B. (Mutilation.) No person shall publicly mutilate,
deface, defile, defy, trample upon, or by word or act cast con-
tempt upon any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shields

SEC. 74C. (Exceptions.) This statute shall not apply to
any .act permitted by the statutes of the United States (or of
this state), or by the United States Army and Navy Regula-
tions, nor shall it apply to any printed or written document or
production, stationery, ornament, picture, apparel or jewelry
whereon shall be depicted said flag, standard, color, ensign or
shield with no design or words thereon and disconnected with
any advertisement.

SEC. 74D. (Penalty.) Any violation of Section 74A of
this act shall be a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of not
more than five hundred dollars. Any violation of Section 74B
of this act shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one
thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one
year, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the
court.

SEC. 74E. (Interpretation.) This act shall be so construed
as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the laws
of the states which «nact it.

SEC. 74F. (Name of Act.) This act consisting of Sections
74 to 74F of this article, both inclusive, may be cited as the
Uniform Flag Law.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 282.

AN ACT authorizing the Maryland School for Boys, a corpora-
tion duly incorporated under the laws of Maryland, to trans-
fer all of its property, real, personal and mixed, including all
its rights, privileges, franchises and immunities, to the State