1138 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 461
of Maryland, Volume 3, title "Crimes and Punishments, " sub-
title "Fraud—Advertisements, " is hereby repealed and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 160C. Any person or persons who with intent to
defraud, sells or exposes for sale any meat preparation and
falsely represents the same to be kosher, or as having been pre-
pared under and of a product or products sanctioned by the
Orthodox Hebrew religious requirements; or falsely represents
any food product or the contents of any package or container
to be so constituted and prepared, by having or permitting to be
inscribed thereon the word "Kosher" in any language; or sells
or exposes for sale in the same place of business both kosher
and non-kosher meat or meat preparations who fails to indi-
cate on his window signs and all display advertising, in block
letters at least four inches in height, "Kosher and non-kosher
meat sold here, " or who exposes for sale in any show window
or place of business both kosher and non-kosher meat or meat
products who fails to display over such meat or meat prepara-
tion so exposed a sign in block letters at least four inches in
height reading "Kosher meat, " or "non-kosher" meat, as the
case may be, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a
fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hun-
dred dollars, or by imprisonment of not less than thirty days
nor more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the Court.
Approved April 9, 1924.
CHAPTER 461.
AN ACT to incorporate the Council of Orthodox Jewish Con-
gregations of Baltimore.
WHEREAS, The Reverend Doctor Schepsel Schaffer, Rabbi
Abraham N. Schwartz, Rabbi Reuven Rivkin, Israel S. Gom-
borov, Doctor Jacob W. Lubchansky, Messrs. Philip W. Gun-
dersheimer, Israel Silberstein, Abraham Fingelstein, Wolf
Cohn, Simon Rief, Tanchum Silberman, Doctor Moses Seidel,
Harry Schlossberg, Julius Traub, Tobias Miller, Jacob Siegel,
Louis Cordish and Hyman Koppelman, by this humble petition
to this General Assembly nave represented that they have or-
ganized a number of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of Balti-
more City; have held a Convention and have decided to organ-
ize a body to be known as the ''Council of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of Baltimore, " and that the said petitioners are
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