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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 114.

Passed Feb
12, 1862.

AN ACT to add new sections to Article thirty of
the Code of Public General Laws, entitled,
Crimes and Punishments, to provide for the
punishment of persons, who may sell articles of
merchandize, being transported on Canals, Rail-
roads or Highways, without the consent of the
owner thereof.

Additional
lections.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the following sections be added
to Article thirty of the Code of Public General
Laws, entitled, ''Crimes and Punishments," to
take place next after section forty-nine of said
Article :

Sale of pro
perty, being
transported of
canals, &c.,
without con-
sent of owner
unlawful.

1. If any person or persons engaged in trans-
porting Coal, Iron, Lumber, or other articles of
merchandize, or any property whatever, on any
Highway, River, Railroad or Canal, within this
' State, shall sell, dispose of, give away, use or
pledge the same or any part thereof, without the
consent of the owner or owners thereof, such per-
son or persons, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be pun-
ished by a fine not less than fifty nor more than
five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the
county jail of the county in which the offence is
committed, for a term not more than one year, or
by both such fine and imprisonment, at the dis-
cretion of the court.

Fraudulent
purchaser —
penalty, &c.

2. If any person or persons, shall purchase or
fraudulently receive, without the consent of the
owner or owners of such property, any Coal, Iron,
Lumber, or other articles of merchandize, or any
property whatever, consigned to any person in this
State or any other State, or the District of Colum-
bia, knowing the same to be so consigned, from
any captain of a Canal boat, or any other person
engaged in transporting the said property, he, she
or they, so purchasing, shall be liable to pay such
owner or owners double the value of the rop-
erty so purchased, to be recovered by civil action,
before any Justice of the Peace, or in any court
having jurisdiction thereof; and the said action