The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-05-12
L0zUS--- General.

6. No warehouseman or corporation or per-
son whatsoever having Issued or caused to be
issued, or having outstanding, and issued by
any agent or officer of such person or corpora
ton as aforesaid, any receipt, acceptance 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 ofsuch 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 in
strument shall have been returned and cancel
led or destroyed, and no such person or cor
poration whatsoever having issued, or having
outstanding as aforesaid any such receipt, ac-
cepance 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 delivered or removed, The
goods, chattels or commodities in such insru-
ment, named or described, or any part there
of, except only to or by the holders of said in
stument, or upon his order, and upon the
presentation of said instrument with his ell.
dorsemcnt in every case, or without cancelling
or destroying said instrument, in case of com
plete delivery or removal, or endorsing thereon
the quantity and &c cription of the goods, chat
tells, or commodities delivered or removed,
and the names of The persons to whom delivered
or by whom removed, in case such delivery or
removal shall be partial only, and airy prnci-
pal, person, or corporation, or agent, or officer,
Of any pers N or corporation, wll'ully violat-
ing this section or any Of the provisions thereof
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable
by fine of not less than one thousand, nor
more than five thousand dollars, in the case of
a corporation, and in the case of an individual
by ine ofnot less than one hundred, nor more
than five thousand dollars, and imprisonment
in the Penitentiary for a period Of not less
than one year, nor more than three years, in
the discretion OF the Court. Provided, ho1ceor
that nothing herein contained shall be con
srued to prohibit the bona & lie issuing of dupli-
cate receipts, acceptances, or other vouchers
aforesaid, with the word duplicate" conspi-
cuously written or printed upon the face there
of, in the stead of any original outstanding re-
ceipts, acceptances, or other vouchers aiore-
said, which may have been lost, destroyed or
mislaid.
7. No person having any claim, right, or
action whatever, under this article, or other
wise upon or urder any instrument, declared
negotiable thereby, or by reason of the Issuing,
negotiation, or holding Of said 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 because Of any
prohbitory or punitive provision in this article
contained.
8. Any aud all parts of the Public Gen
eral 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 g. into effect Immediately from and after
its passage
We hereby ceriifr that the aforegoing is true
and perfect copy of an act passed the General.
Assembly of Maryland, at the January ses-
sion, 1876.
AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House Of Dctega's
Approved April 7, 1876.