EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 889

CHAPTER 424.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 423
of Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land of the year 1914.

SECTION 1. B e it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 423 of Article 27 of the Code of Public
General Laws of the year 1914, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as fol-
lows:

423. Every person who shall be convicted of the crime
of receiving any stolen money, goods or chattels, knowing the
same to be stolen, or of the crime of receiving any bond, bill
obligatory, bill of exchange, promissory note for the payment
of money, bank note, paper bill of credit, or certificate granted
by or under the authority of this State, or the United States,
or any of them, knowing the same to be stolen, shall restore
such money, goods or chattels or things taken and received to
the owner thereof, or make restitution to the value of the whole
or such part thereof as shall not be restored, and shall be
sentenced to undergo confinement in the penitentiary, or in
the house of correction, or in jail, in the discretion of the
court imposing sentence, for not more than ten years. And
such receiver may be prosecuted and punished, although the
principal offender or offenders shall not have been convicted,
and although such receiver shall have received such money,
goods or chattels or things from a person other than the person
by whom such money, goods or chattels or things shall have
been stolen.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 425.
AN ACT for the prevention of graft.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That no person or corporation engaged in the business
of building greenhouse structures, selling fertilizers, insecti-
cides, coal, soil, flower pots, trees, shrubs, bulbs, plants, gar-
den and farm implements, seeds or any other commodities,
necessary for the formation and maintenance of public parks
and grounds, cemeteries, baseball and athletic club grounds,