BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

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or embezzlement, secreting or making way with goods,
chattels, valuable effects, money or securities, the court
before whom any such conviction shall be had may award
restitution to the real owner thereof; provided, however,
that no bona fide holder thereof shall be obliged to
surrender up the same.]

[ 146.

Every person who by any false pretense shall obtain
from any club, association, society or company for improving
the breed of cattle, horses, sheep, swine and other domestic
animals a certificate of registration of any animal in the
herd register or other register of any such club,
association, society or company, or a transfer of any such
registration, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more
than one hundred dollars. ]

[ 147.

Any person who shall by any false and fraudulent
representation in writing, signed by him as to his own or
his partner's pecuniary responsibility, wealth or mercantile
correspondence or connections, obtain any loan of money or
of property from any person, persons, copartnership or
corporation and shall thereby defraud such person, persons,
copartnership or corporation, or who shall cause or procure
another to make any false and fraudulent representation in
writing, signed by the person making the same, as to the
pecuniary responsibility, wealth or mercantile
correspondence, or connections of the person who shall cause
or procure such false representation to be made, or of any
other person, and shall thereby obtain any loan of money or
property from any person, persons, copartnership or
corporation, and shall thereby defraud such person, persons,
copartnership or corporation, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be sentenced to
return the money or property so fraudulently obtained, and
shall be fined not exceeding two thousand dollars, or shall
be confined in the jail of the county or the City of
Baltimore, as the case may be, not exceeding one year, or
shall be both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid, in the
discretion of the court.]

[148.

Any person, who shall knowingly make or cause to be
made, either directly or indirectly, or through any agency
whatsoever, any false statement in writing, with intent that
it shall be relied upon, respecting the financial condition,
or means or ability to pay, of himself, or any other person,
firm or corporation, in whom he is interested, or for whom
he is acting, for the purpose of procuring in any form
whatsoever, either the delivery of personal property, the
payment of cash, the making of a loan or credit, the
extension of a credit, the discount of an account
receivable, or the making, acceptance, discount, sale or