ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR 1329
hour; and in all other respects Section 118 of Article 33 of
the Annotated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
title "Elections," sub-title "Compensation," shall remain in
full force and effect in Caroline County.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the first day of June, 1920.
Approved April 16, 1920.
CHAPTER 703.
AN ACT to add three new sections to Article 27 of the Code
of Public General Laws of Maryland (Bagby's Code), en-
titled "Crimes and Punishments," sub-title "Counter-
feiting and Forgery," and to provide punishments and
penalties for the violation of the same.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That three new sections be and the same are hereby
added to Article 27 of Bagby's Annotated Code of Public
General Laws of the State of Maryland, title "Crimes and
Punishments," subtitle "Counterfeiting and Forgery," said
new sections to follow immediately after Section 62 and to be
known as Section 62A and Sections 62B and 62C, and to read
as follows:
SEC. 62A. Any person who, without the authority of the
person or corporation issuing, selling or giving away any
ticket, coupon, token, coin, disc or slug or any other thing as
evidence of the right of any person or persons to enter, leave,
ride upon or pass through or over any building, ground, public
conveyance, boat, bridge or other thing or place, to enter, leave,
ride upon or pass through or over which any fare or fee is
charged, whether said ticket, coin, coupon or disc or slug or
other thing is intended or designed or used to be inserted in a
box or machine for collection of fares or fees, or to be taken up
by a collector, shall make, utter, forge or counterfeit or cause
or procure to be made, uttered, forged or counterfeited or shall
aid or assist in making, uttering, forging or counterfeiting, or
utter or pass, knowing it to be so made, uttered, forged or
counterfeited, any such ticket, coupon, token, coin, disc or
slug or any other thing so issued, sold or given away by any
person or corporation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
on conviction in any Court of this State shall be sentenced to
the jail or house of correction for not more than one year.
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