EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 729

of the person or persons to whom a loan is made, a general de-
scription of the property taken as security, the time the loan is
made, the amount thereof, and the amount charged for making
it.

These books and all the business and affairs of every licensed
Pawn-broker shall be subject at all times to inspection by the
Chief of Police of the City of Hagerstown in said County.

SEC. 4. Any person or persons, firm or corporation,
who shall engage in the business of loaning money upon per-
sonal property and charge therefor, under any pretext whatso-
ever, any sum in excess of the legal rate of interest, without
first taking out a Pawn-broker's license, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon trial and conviction shall be pun-
ished by a fine of One Hundred Dollars for the first offense,
and the same fine and also imprisonment in jail for thirty days
for each subsequent offense.

SEC. 5. No Pawn-broker in said County shall make any
other charge for making a loan or advance, for packing or
any other expense, then the charge allowed by Section 2.

SEC. 6. Any licensed Pawn-broker, who shall in any way
or by any subterfuge or device violate any of the provisions
of this Act, shall upon trial and conviction be punished by a
fine of One Hundred Dollars for the first offense and a like
fine and also imprisonment in jail for thirty days for each sub-
sequent offense, and any goods, chattels or personal property,
upon which he has made a loan shall be returned to the owner
or owners thereof.

One-half of all fines imposed under the provisions of this Act
shall be paid to the informer or person causing the arrest and
conviction of the offender.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all Acts and parts
of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be and
they are hereby repealed, in so far as they relate to Washing-
ton County.

Approved April 11th, 1916.

CHAPTER 355.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 21 of the Code
of Public General Laws of Maryland (Bagby's Code), title
"Conveyancing, " to be known as Section 53B and to be sub-
titled "Conditional Contracts of Sales, " and to provide for
recording said "Conditional Contracts of Sales. "