J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                        45

title "Crimes and Punishments", subtitle "Returnable Containers
and Marked Articles of Linen Suppliers", correcting an error in
the laws relating to registration and other procedure applicable to
returnable containers and marked articles of linen suppliers.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 471 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1965 Supplement), title "Crimes and Punishments", subtitle "Re-
turnable Containers and Marked Articles of Linen Suppliers", be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

471. Any and all persons, partnerships or bodies corporate own-
ing returnable containers, or dealing in any commodities handled or
delivered in returnable containers, which said containers bear
securely affixed or attached thereto, or impressed or imprinted
thereon, in any manner whatsoever, a name, mark or device whereby
such container can be readily identified, or any person engaged in
the business of regularly supplying clean laundered garments, towels,
table or bed linens or other such articles with his or its name or
other marks or devices woven, impressed or produced thereon, and
who periodically exchange such clean articles for soiled articles, may
register the same, and thereby procure all of the benefits of such
registration, guaranteed under the provision of this subtitle, as to
all like containers, or clean laundered or soiled articles similarly
marked, whether such containers or such articles were actually in
existence or not at the time of registration. Any such owner or dealer
desiring to register such returnable container, or such clean laundered
articles, shall cause to be prepared a clear statement of the character
of such container, or such clean laundered articles, with a compre-
hensive description of such distinguishing name, mark or device, so
affixed, attached, impressed or imprinted thereto or thereon, the
same to be subscribed and acknowledged by the said owner or dealer,
or by an officer thereof, should such owner or dealer be a body cor-
porate; such subscription and acknowledgement to be made before
any officer qualified to take acknowledgements to [deed] deeds in
the State of Maryland. After such description shall have been so
made, subscribed and acknowledged, it shall be published in two
successive issues not in the same week, in some newspaper published
in the county where the principal office, place of business or agency
of the said owner or dealer is located; or, if the same be located in
the City of Baltimore, then by causing such description to be printed
twice a week for two successive weeks in some daily paper published
therein. Thereupon, the said description, together with the certifi-
cate of publication, certified to by the owner or manager of the news-
paper in which the same shall have been published, shall be re-
corded in the clerk's office of the circuit court of the county in which
the principal office, place of business or agency of the said owner
or dealer is located, or with the clerk of the Superior Court of Bal-
timore City, should such principal office, place of business or agency
be located in the said city.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved March 23, 1966.