Marvin Mandel, Governor                         615

Section 29. And be it further enacted, That Sections 88 (c),
88(d), 94, 467(c), 467(d), and 594D of Article 27 Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume) title and subtitle "Crimes and
Punishments" subheadings, respectively, "Desertion of Wife or
Child," "Receiving Stolen Goods, Money or Securities," and subtitle
"Venue, Procedure and Sentence," subheading, "Personal Summons
in Lieu of Arrest—Prince George's County," be and they are hereby
repealed.

Section 30. And be it further enacted, That Sections 3,8,9,10, and
11 of Article 29 Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Vol-
ume) title "Currency" be and they are hereby repealed and re-en-
acted, with amendments, to read as follows:

§ 3. Judgments, decrees, fines and penalties to be expressed in dol-
lars and cents.

All judgments and decrees in suits and actions to be rendered and
passed in any court [of law or equity or by any justice of the peace]
in this State and all penalties, fines and forfeitures shall be ren-
dered, given, made or imposed in dollars and cents.

§ 8. Same—Liberal interpretation.

The preceding sections in relation to the issuing or circulating of
promissory notes, orders, bills, evidences of debt and other paper se-
curities shall receive a liberal interpretation to suppress the mischief,
and any note, bill, order or other writing designed or used as money
or currency shall be considered a paper security within the meaning
of the said sections; and the forfeitures imposed in said sections shall
be recovered [before a justice of the peace] in the District Court as
small debts [, one half to the informer and the other half to the
State].

§ 9. Foreign notes, scrip, etc., of less than five dollars denomina-
tion—Circulation prohibited.

It shall not be lawful for any person, firm or association of per-
sons, corporation or body politic to pay out, circulate or receive in pay-
ment of any debt any bank note, promissory note or other obligation
payable to bearer, or endorsed in blank or to bearer, or any other
note, token, scrip or device whatsoever, devised or intended for cir-
culation as currency issued without the limits of this State, of a less
denomination than five dollars under a penalty of five dollars for
each offense, to be recovered by an action of debt in the name of
the State [before any justice of the peace of the State] in the Dis-
trict Court, and it shall not be lawful for any bank, savings institu-
tion, corporation, or body politic of this State, or for any person or
association of persons, to make, issue or pay out any notice or device
of the nature and character described in this section of a less de-
nomination than five dollars under the penalty prescribed in this
section for each offense, and to be recovered in the same manner.

§ 10. Same—Disposition of fine.

[One half of t] The penalty recovered in any case under § 9 shall
go to the State if recovered in the District Court, or if recovered in
the circuit court for any county or the Criminal Court of Baltimore, it