1102 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 528

Section 338. Any person, partnership or body corporate
that has heretofore registered returnable containers under the
provisions of the law, as the same stood at the time of such
registration, shall not be required to again register the same,
but shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Act as if the
same had been registered hereunder; provided, however, that
it shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to adopt and
register under the provisions of this Act any returnable con-
tainer or description, name, mark or device that has been pre-
viously registered by any other person, or is at such time used
or in use by any other person in good faith, whether under the
provisions of this article or otherwise.

Section 339. In any prosecution under any of the provi-
sions of the preceding sections, it shall not be necessary to set
forth or describe the name, mark or device affixed or attached
to or impressed or imprinted upon any returnable container,
nor to set forth the particulars of the registration of same or
of the assignment or transfer of such registration, but it shall
be sufficient to describe the container, so as to permit of its
identification averring that the same is distinctively marked,
and is registered according to law, giving the name of the
owner of such returnable container, or of the dealer using the
same by virtue of such registration, or the name of the assignee
or transferee thereof as the case may be.

Section 340. All costs incurred in prosecutions under Sec-
tions 333 and 334 hereof, shall be assessed and collected in the
same manner as in criminal cases, and be accounted for in the
same manner as fines in cases of assault and battery are now
by law disposed of.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts and parts
of Acts inconsistent with this Act, be and the same are hereby
repealed; provided, however, that nothing in this Act shall be
construed so as to prevent, or affect in any manner, the prose-
cution of any offense against the law repealed by this Act
which may have been committed prior to the passage of this

Act, or the punishment provided for such offense.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the first day of June, 1916.

Approved April 18th, 1916.