HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 229

the Peace of the Counties in certain cases and providing
method of procedure.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 470 of Article 27 of the Annotated
Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland (1924 Edi-
tion), title "Crimes and Punishments, " sub-title "Receiving
Stolen Goods, Money or Securities, " be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and that
a new section be and it is hereby added, said new section
to be known as Section 470A and to follow immediately
after Section 470 of said Article and all to read as follows:

470. Every person who shall be convicted of the crime
of receiving any stolen money, goods, or chattels, to the
value of twenty-five dollars or upwards, knowing the same
to be stolen, or of the crime of receiving any bond, bill
obligatory, bill of exchange, promissory note for the pay-
ment of money, bank note, paper bill of credit, or certifi-
cate granted by or under the authority of this State, or
the United States, or any of them, to the value of twenty-
five dollars or upwards, knowing the same to be stolen, shall
restore such money, goods or chattels or things taken and
received to the owner thereof, or make restitution to the
value of the whole or such part thereof as shall not be re-
stored, and shall be sentenced to undergo confinement in
the penitentiary, or in the house of correction, or in jail,
in the discretion of the Court imposing sentence, for not
more than ten years. And such receiver may be prosecuted
and punished, although the principal offender or offenders
shall not have been convicted, and although such receiver
shall have received such money, goods or chattels or things
from a person other than the person by whom such money,
goods or chattels or things shall have been stolen.

470A. Every person who shall be convicted of the crime
of receiving any stolen money, goods or chattels, under the
value of twenty-five dollars, knowing the same to be stolen
or of the crime of receiving any bond, bill obligatory, bill
of exchange, promissory note for the payment of money,
bank note, paper bill of credit, or certificate granted by or
under the authority of this State, or the United States, or
any of them, under the value of twenty-five dollars, know-
ing the same to be stolen, shall restore such money, goods
or chattels or things taken and received to the owner
thereof or make restitution to the value of the whole or