The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-05-20

g0tiable, shall be held aud taken, when issued
TO be anegotiable receipt aud instrument to all
intents and effects, within the meaning and
operation Of this article.
a. Any instrument declared negotiable by
this article, shall be held and taken to have
been issued, within the meaning Of this article
when il shall have been signed, and shall have
been delivered out of the custody Of the per-
son or corporation to be charged or bound
by the same, or Of his or its agent or officer
aforesaid.
s. No person or corporation, or agent, or
officer of any person or corporation in this
State, shall issue any bill of lading, receipt,
acknowledgement, or voucher whatsoever,
for goods, chattels, or commodities of any
kind to be transported on land or water, or
on both, or any receipt, acceptance OF an
order or other voucher for goods, chattels or
commodities, as on storage or deposit in this
State, until, and unless the whole Of the said
goods, chattels, aud commodities, shall have
been actually received to be transported by
such person or corporation, in one case, or
shall be actually in the possession or custody,
or upon the premises, or under the absolute
and exclusive control Of such person or cor
poration in the other case, at the time when
such instrument shall be issued and any
principal person or corporation, or any agent,
or officer whatsoever, of any person or cor
poration, willfully violating the provisions,
or any provisions of this section, shall be
guilty OF misdemeanor and on conviction
thereof shall be subject to fine of not less
than one thousand, nor more than five thous-
and dollars in the discretion OF the Court.
@. No warehouseman or corporation or
person whatsoever having issued or caused to
be issued, or having outstanding, and issued
by any agent or officer Of such person or cor
norottop ne aforauoid anv raoaint aopanfonoa
Of order or other voucher for goods, chattels
or commodities as on deposit or storage, with
or in the custody or on the premises or under
the control of such person or corporation,
shall issue any other receipt, acceptance of
order, or other voucher whatsoever, for the
same or any part thereof, until the said first
issued instrument shall have been returned
and cancelled, or destroyed, and no such
person or corporation whatsoever having is
sued, or having outstanding as aforesaid any
such receipt, acceptance Of order or other
voucher aforesaid, and no agent or officer Of
any such person or corporation, shall part
with, deliver or remove, or permit to be de-
liyered or removed, the goods chattels, or
commodities, in such instrument, named or de-
scribed, or any part thereof except only to or
by the holders Of said instrument, or upon his
order, and upon the presentation of said in
strument with his endorsement in every case,
or without cancelling or destroying said dinstru-
ment, in case of complete delivery or removal
or endorsing thereon the quantity and de.
scrption of the goods, chattels, or commodi.
ties, delivered or removed, and the names OF
the persons to whom delivered or by whom re.
moved, in case such delivery or removal shall
be partial only, and any principal, person, or
corporation, or agent, or officer, of any person
or corporation, willfully violating this section
or any of the provisions thereof shall be
guilty Of a misdemeanor, punishable by a
fine of not less than one thousand, nor more
than five thousand dollars, in the case Of
corporation, and in the case Of an individual
by fine of not less than one hundred, nor more
than five thousand dollars and Imprisonment
in the Penitentiary for period of not less
than one year, nor more than three years, in
the discretion Of the Court. Porided, h0tc
eper that nothing herein contained shall be
construed to prohibit the bona fde issuing of
duplicate receipts, acceptances, or other
vouchers aforesaid, with the word "duplicate"
conspicuously written or printed upon the
face thereof, in the stead of any original out
standing receipts, acceptances, or other voueh-
ers aforesaid, which may have been lost, des-
troyed or mislaid.
I. No person having any claim, right or
action whatever, under this article, or other
wise upon or under any instrument, declar-
ed negotiable thereby, or by reason ofthe issu.
ing, negotiation, or holding ofsaid instrument,
or the doing of any matter or thing, by this
article forbidden or made punishable, shall
be in any way hindered or precluded from
asserting or maintaining the same, by or be
calse of any prohibitor or punitive provision
in this article contained.
8. Any and all parts Of the Public General
Laws, or the Public Local Laws, of the State
conflicting with any of the provisions of this
article, are hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act
shall go into effect Immediately from and
after its passage.
We hereby certify that the aforegong is
true and perfect copy of an act passed the
General Assembly Of Maryland, at the Janu-
ary session, 1876.
AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
Secretary Of the Senate.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
Approved April Z, 1876