Ch. 266                                     1993 LAWS OF MARYLAND

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 provisions 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 comprehensive 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-corporate; such subscription
and acknowledgment to be made before any officer qualified to take acknowledgments to
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 certificate of publication, certified to by the owner or manager of the
newspaper in which the same shall have been published, shall be recorded [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] WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

472.

After such container, or such clean laundered article, shall have been [so]
registered [as hereinbefore provided] WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE, the said owner
or dealer may assign and transfer the said registration, provided a copy of said assignment
or transfer shall be recorded [at the place of original recordation, and if that be not the
place at which the principal office, place of business or agency of such assignee or
transferee is located, then such assignment or transfer shall also be registered in the same
manner as is hereinbefore provided for original registration] WITH THE SECRETARY OF
STATE, and when so made and recorded such transfer or assignment shall secure to the
assignee or transferee all the benefits of this subtitle.

473.

The [said clerks mentioned in § 471] SECRETARY OF STATE shall record in some
book of record [in their respective custody,] all such descriptions in [§ 472] § 471 of this.
article authorized to be filed [with them], together with the certificates of the publishers
of said newspapers in which the same have been [published;] PUBLISHED, and also all
assignments and transfers thereof as hereinbefore [provided;] PROVIDED and [said
respective clerks] shall furnish copies of such records duly certified [by them] in the
usual manner to all persons who may apply therefor, and shall receive for such: recording
and such copies [the] REASONABLE fees [paid with respect to bills of sale; and a]
ESTABLISHED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE. A certified copy of said descriptions and
of the said advertisements and certificates of the said publishers of the said newspaper, or
of said assignments or transfers [when certified to under the hand of the clerk with whom

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