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39A.

Whenever any sale of realty or personalty is required to be made
by any of the Sheriffs of this State as part of their office duties, the
said Sheriffs shall be empowered, in their discretion, to employ an
auctioneer of their choice to conduct the said sale and also to charge
the costs thereof to the debtor.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved April 22, 1970

CHAPTER 389
(House Bill 1444)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 466 of
Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, (1969 Supplement),
title "Crimes and Punishments," subtitle "Crimes and Punish-
ments," subheading "Receiving Stolen Goods, Money or Securi-
ties," amending the law relating to receiving stolen goods to give
the People's Court of Anne Arundel County jurisdiction where
the amount in question does not exceed $500.00.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 466 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1969 Supplement), title "Crimes and Punishments," subtitle
"Crimes and Punishments," subheading "Receiving Stolen Goods,
Money or Securities," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

466.

Every person who shall be convicted of the crime of receiving
any stolen money, goods or chattels, to the value of one hundred dol-
lars 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 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, to the value of one hundred dollars
or upwards, knowing the same to be stolen, shall restore such money,
goods, or chattels or thing taken and received to the owner thereof,
or make restitution to the value of the whole or such part thereof as
shall not be restored, and shall be guilty of a felony and upon convic-
tion 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. In Baltimore City [,] and Anne
Arundel County, where the amount of money or the value of the
thing received does not exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00), the