general partners; provided, that such stockholders shall not be liable beyond the amount of unpaid stock subscribed or held by them. [Sec. 5833, L. O. L.]

§ 5855. Indorsement or Assignment of Negotiable Instrument By Corporation Passes Title Notwithstanding It Has No Capacity to Indorse.

The indorsement or assignment of the instrument by a corporation or by an infant passes the property therein, notwithstanding that from want of capacity the corporation or infant may incur no liability thereon. [Sec. 5855, L. O. L.] § 5875. Negotiable Instrument-Indorsement.

Where an instrument is drawn or indorsed to a person as "cashier," or other fiscal officer of a bank or corporation, it is deemed prima facie to be payable to the bank or corporation of which he is such officer, and may be negotiated by either the indorsement of the bank or corporation, or the indorsement of the officer. [Sec. 5875, L. O. L.]

§ 2024.

Officer of Corporation Falsifying Records.

If any person, being or assuming to be an officer, agent, or member of any private corporation or company, shall, with intent to defraud or deceive any one, willfully and knowingly destroy, alter, mutilate, or in any manner falsify or concur in the destruction, alteration, mutilation, or falsification of any of the books, papers, writings, or securities belonging to or in the possession of such corporation or company, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished in the manner prescribed in Section 1963. [Sec. 2024, L. O. L.]

§ 2025. Officer of Corporation Publishing False Business Reports.

If any person, being or assuming to be an officer, agent, or member of any private corporation or company, shall, with intent to defraud or deceive any one, willfully and knowingly make, circulate, or publish, or concur in the making, circulating, or publishing any written or printed statement or account, concerning or relating to the liabilities, assets, or property of such corporation or company, which statement or account shall be false in any material particular, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished in the manner provided in Section 1963. [Sec. 2025, L. O. L.]

§ 1963. Penalty for Violating Preceding Sections.

If any person, being a banker, broker, merchant, attorney, or agent, and being intrusted with the property of another, for sale or custody, shall, by any means, with intent to defraud, convert the same, or any portion thereof, to his own use or benefit, or to the use or benefit of another not entitled thereto,

such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or by fine not less than $50.00 nor more than $1,000.00. [Sec. 1963, L. O. L.]

§ 1996. Forging Name of Agent or Officer-Penalty.

If any person shall, with intent to injure or defraud any one, falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit any public record whatever, or any certificate, return, or attestation of any clerk, notary public, or other public officer, in relation to any matter wherein such certificate, return, or attestation may be received as legal evidence, or any note, certificate, or other evidence of debt issued by any officer of this State, or any county, town or other municipal or public corporation therein, authorized to issue the same, or any application to purchase State lands or assignment thereof, contract, charter, letters patent, deed, lease. bill of sale, will, testament, bond, writing obligatory, undertaking, letter of attorney, policy of insurance, bill of lading, bill of exchange, promissory note, evidence of debt, or any acceptance of a bill of exchange, endorsement, or assignment of a promissory note, or any warrant, order or check, or money, or other property, or any receipt for money or other property, or any acquittance or discharge for money or other property, or any plat, draft, or survey of land; or shall, with such intent, knowingly utter or publish as true or genuine any such false, altered, forged or counterfeited record, writing, instrument, or matter whatever, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than twenty years. [Sec. 1996, L. O. L.]

§ 1955. Embezzlement By Employe of Corporation-Punishment.

If any officer, agent, clerk, employe, or servant of any person, copartnership, or corporation, shall embezzle or fraudulently convert to his own use, or take or secrete with intent to embezzle or fraudulently convert to his own use, any money, property or thing belonging wholly or in part to such person, copartnership or corporation, which may be the subject. of larceny, and which shall have come into his possession, or be under his care by virtue of such employment, such officer, agent, clerk, employe, or servant, whether he has, or has not any interest, divisible or indivisible, in such money, property, or thing, shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished accordingly; and the fact that such officer, agent, clerk, employe or servant has mixed such money, property or thing with the money, property or thing of another person, copartnership or corporation, shall not constitute a defense to said crime of larceny. [Sec. 1955, L. O. L.]

§ 2060. Intimidation of Voters By Corporations.

Any person or corporation who directly or indirectly uses any force, violence, or restraint, or inflicts or threatens to inflict any injury, damage, harm, or loss, or in any other manner practices intimidation upon or against any person in his or its employ, in order to induce or compel such person to refrain from voting at any election, or to vote or to refrain from voting for or against any person or persons, or for or against any proposition submitted to the voters at such election, or to place or cause to be placed, a refrain from placing or causing to be placed, his name upon a registry of voters, or on account of any person having so voted or refrained from voting at such election, or having registered or refrained from registering as a voter; or by abduction, duress, or any forcible or fraudulent device or contrivance whatsoever impedes, prevents, or otherwise interferes with the free exercise of the elective franchise by any such employe; or compels, induces, or prevails upon any voter to give or refrain from giving his vote for or against any particular person or proposition, at any election; or, being an employer, pays his employe the salary or wages due him in pay envelopes upon which there is written or printed any political motto, device, or argument containing threats, expressed or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or actions of such employes; or within ninety days of a general election puts or otherwise exhibits in the establishment or place where his employes are engaged in labor, any handbill or placard containing any threat, notice, or information that if any particular ticket or candidate is elected or defeated work in his place or establishment will cease in whole or in part, his establishment be closed up or the wages of his employes reduced, or other threats, expressed or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or actions of his or its employes, is guilty of a misdemeanor. [Sec. 2060, L. O. L.]

§ 2061. Penalty for Violating Last Section.

Any person or corporation found guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of the preceding section of this Act shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and, if a corporation, shall in addition forfeit its charter. [Sec. 2061, L. O. L.]

§ 2179. Blacklisting Employes Prohibited.

No corporation, company, or individual shall blacklist or publish, or cause to be blacklisted or published, any employe, mechanic, or laborer, discharged by such corporation, company, or individual, with intent and for the purpose of

preventing such employe, mechanic, or laborer from engaging in or securing similar or other employment from any other corporation, company, or individual. [Sec. 2179, L. O. L.] § 2180. Penalty for Violating Preceding Section.

If any officer or agent of any corporation, company, or individual, or other person, shall blacklist or publish, or cause to be blacklisted or published, any employe, mechanic, or laborer, with intent and for the purpose of preventing such employe, mechanic, or laborer from engaging in or securing similar or other employment from any corporation, company, or individual, or shall, in any manner, conspire or contrive, by correspondence or otherwise, to prevent such discharged employe from securing employment, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not less. than thirty nor more than ninety days, or both, at the discretion of the court. [Sec. 2180, L. O. L.]

§ 5064. Employing Labor—Deception is Prohibited—Penalty.

Any person, firm, company, corporation, or association of any kind employing labor, who shall, either in person, or by or through any agent, manager, or other legal representatives, by any false or deceptive representation or false advertising, concerning the amount or character of the compensation to be paid for any work, or as to the existence or non-existence of a strike, lockout, or other labor troubles pending between employer or employees; or who shall neglect to state in such advertisement, proposal, or inducement for the employment of workmen that there is a strike, lockout, or unsettled condition of labor, when such strike, lockout, or unsettled condition of labor actually exists, shall induce, influence, persuade, or engage workmen to change from one place to another in this State; or who shall bring workmen of any class or calling into this State to work in any of the departments of labor, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or confined in the county jail not exceeding one year, or both. [Sec. 5064, L. O. L.]

§ 5065. Damages-Right of Action By Workmen for Recovery.

Any workman of this State, or any workman of another state, who has or shall be influenced, induced, or persuaded to engage with any persons mentioned in Section 5064, through or by means of any of the things therein prohibited, each of such workmen shall have a right of action for recovery of all damages that each such workman has sustained in consequence

of the false or deceptive representations, false advertising, and false pretenses used to induce him to change his place of employment against any person or persons, corporations, companies, or associations, directly or indirectly causing such damages; and, in addition to all actual damages such workman may have sustained, shall be entitled to recover such reasonable attorney's fees as the court shall fix, to be taxed as costs in any judgment recovered. [Sec. 5065, L. O. L.]

§ 5066. Employes to Be Paid With Negotiable Paper.

No person or corporation engaged in any business or enterprise of any kind in this State shall issue, in payment of or as an evidence of indebtedness for wages due an employe, any order, check, memorandum, or other acknowledgment of indebtedness, unless the same is negotiable, and is payable without discount in cash on demand at some bank or other established place of business in the county where the same is issued; and such person or corporation shall, upon presentation and demand, pay any such order, check, memorandum, or other acknowledgment of indebtedness, in lawful money of the United States; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall in any way limit or interfere with the right of any such employe to accept from any such person or corporation, as an evidence or acknowledgment of indebtedness for wages due him, a negotiable instrument, payable at some future date with interest. [Sec. 5066, L. O. L.]

§ 3510. To Prevent Corrupt Practices in Elections.

No corporation, and no person, trustee, or trustees owning or holding the majority of the stock of a corporation, carrying on the business of a bank, savings bank, cooperative bank, trust, trustee, surety, indemnity, safe deposit, insurance, railroad, street railway, telegraph, telephone, gas, electric light, heat, power, canal, aqueduct, water, cemetery, or crematory company, or any company having the right to take or condemn land or to exercise franchises in public ways granted by the State or by any county, city or town, shall pay or contribute in order to aid, promote or prevent the nomination or election of any person, or in order to aid or promote the interests, success or defeat of any political party or organization. No person shall solicit or receive such payment or contribution from such corporation or such holders of a majority of such stock. [Sec. 3510, L. O. L.]

§ 3535. Penalty for Violating Preceding Section.

Whoever violates any provision of this Act, the punishment for which is not specially provided by law, shall on conviction