J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                     1325

Checks, etc.," to give the trial magistrates of Worcester County
concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court of the county to try
some cases involving violations of the false pretenses and bad
check laws.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 140 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Supplement), title "Crimes and Punishments," subtitle "False
Pretenses, Bad Checks, etc.," be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

140.

Any person who shall by any false pretense obtain from any other
person any chattel, money or valuable security, with intent to de-
fraud 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 charged with such misdemeanor 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 entitled 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 con-
viction under this section. In Wicomico County [and in], St. Mary's
County, and in Worcester 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 and the trial magistrates,
respectively, shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court
to try persons charged with violating this section and Sections 142
and 144 of this article, provided that persons so convicted in the
people's court or trial magistrate's court shall not be sentenced to
the penitentiary by that court. In Baltimore City where the amount
of money or the value of the thing received does not exceed one
hundred dollars ($100.00), the Municipal Court of Baltimore City
shall have jurisdiction to try persons charged with violating this
section, provided that persons so convicted in the Municipal 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, 1965.

Approved May 4, 1965.

CHAPTER 839
(House Bill 926)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 83-57
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George's County (1963
Edition) and Section 73-44 of the Montgomery County Code (I960