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165. Any person who shall by any false pretense obtain
from any other person any chattel, money or valuable se-
curity, with intent to defraud any person of the same,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted
thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to
be punished by fine and imprisonment, or by confinement
in the penitentiary for not less than two years nor more
than ten. years, as the court shall award; provided always,
that if upon the trial of any person indicted for such mis-
demeanor it shall be proved that he obtained the property
in question in any such manner as to amount in law to
larceny or robbery, he shall not by reason thereof be en-
titled to be acquitted of such misdemeanor; and no person
tried upon such misdemeanor shall be afterwards liable
to be prosecuted for larceny or robbery upon the same
facts; and provided also, that a mere promise for future
payment, though not intended to be performed, shall not
be sufficient to authorize a conviction under this section.
In Wicomico County where the amount of money or the
value of the thing received does not exceed Three Hundred
Dollars ($300. 00), the People's Court shall have concur-
rent jurisdiction with the Circuit Court to try persons
charged with violating Sections 165, 167 and 169 of this
Article, provided that persons so convicted in the People's
Court shall not be sentenced to the penitentiary by that
Court.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1953.

Approved March 31, 1953.

CHAPTER 198
(House Bill 53)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
593A of the Charter and Public Local Laws of Baltimore
City (1949 Edition, being Article 4 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland), title "Baltimore City, " sub-
title "Police Commissioner, " said section having been

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