ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 399

General Laws of Maryland, title ''Crimes and Punishments,''
sub-title "Fraud by Mortgagors of Personal Property," as
the same is set forth in Bagby's Annotated Code, Volume 3.
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments so as to read as follows:

184. Any mortgagor of personal property in possession of
the same, or any purchaser of personal property under a re-
corded or unrecorded, conditional, written contract, in pos-
session of said property, or any execution debtor in possession
of personal property levied on and taken in execution, who, in
the case of mortgaged personal property, without the consent
of the mortgagee or his assigns, first had and obtained in writ-
ing, or who, in the case of the purchaser of personal property
tinder a recorded or unrecorded, conditional, written contract,
without the consent first had and obtained in writing of the
conditional vendor in said contract, or his assigns, or who, in
the case of personal property levied on and taken in execution,
without the consent of the execution creditor, his assigns or
lawfully authorized agents, first had and obtained in writing,
and with intent to defraud the mortgagee, or with intent to
defraud the said vendor of personal property in a recorded or
Unrecorded, conditional, written contract, or his assigns, or
with intent to defraud the execution creditor or his assigns,
and defeat his or their lien under said execution, shall remove
any of the personal property so mortgaged or purchased under
said recorded or unrecorded, conditional, written contract, or
levied on and taken in execution as aforesaid, as the case may
be, beyond the limits of the city or county where it is located
when so mortgaged or purchased under said recorded or un-
recorded, conditional, written contract, or levied on and taken
in execution, or who, with intent as aforesaid, removes, secretes,
hypothecates, destroys or sells the same shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and/on. indictment therefor and conviction
thereof shall be imprisoned in the city or county jail not more
than six months, Or shall be fined not more than five hundred
dollars, or both, in the discretion of the court; but nothing
herein contained shall be construed to relieve the sheriff or
other officer holding said execution from his responsibility to
the execution creditor for the safe keeping of any personal
property by him levied on and taken in execution as afore-
said.