than one year, or be fined not more than five thousand dollars nor less than five hundred dollars, or both, in the discretion of the court.

Fraud--Corporate Misrepresentation.

1888, art. 27, sec. 97. 1878, ch. 170.

134. Any officer or agent whatsoever of any corporation who shall fraudulently sign, or in any other manner assent to any statement or publication, either for the public or the shareholders thereof, containing untruthful representations of its affairs, assets or liabilities with a view either to enhance or depress the market value of the shares therein, or the value of its corporate obligations, or in any other manner to accomplish any fraud thereby, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, by indictment in any court of law, shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars, nor more than ten thousand dollars and be imprisoned in jail or penitentiary, or either fined or imprisoned, at the discretion of the court, for not less than six months, nor more than three years.

Fraud-Insurance Companies, by Directors or Officers of. 1898, ch. 320, sec. 119B.

145. Any director or officer of any insurance company or association, or fraternal beneficiary association, who shall receive any premium or assessment on behalf of said company, association or fraternal beneficiary association, knowing at the time of the receipt of said premium or assessment said company, association or fraternal beneficiary association to be insolvent, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in jail for a period not exceeding six months, or both, in the discretion of the court.

Fraud Warehouse, Storage and Elevator Receipts.

1908, ch. 319.

194. 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 corporation 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 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 person or corporation whatsoever having issued 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 delivered or removed the goods, chattels or commodities in such instrument named or described, or any part thereof, except only to or by the holder of said instrument, or upon his order, and upon the presentation of said instrument with his endorsement in every case, or without cancelling or destroying said instrument in case of complete delivery or removal or endorsing thereon the quantity and description of the goods, chattels 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 any principal person or corporation or agent or officer of any person or corporation wilfully 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 a corporation, and in the case of an individual by a fine of not 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, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the bona fide 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 outstanding receipts, acceptances or other vouchers aforesaid, which may have been lost, destroyed or mislaid; and provided further, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit any warehouseman in any proceeding

taken for the enforcement of his warehouseman's lien, from delivering possession of the goods, wares, merchandise, chattels, commodities or other property sold in such proceeding to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, without the production, surrender or cancellation of the outstanding receipt, acceptance of order or other voucher for the property so sold.

Health-Hours of Labor of Children.

1888, art. 27, sec. 139. 1874, ch. 3. 1876, ch. 125. 1892, ch. 443. 225. No child under sixteen years of age shall be employed in laboring more than ten hours a day in any manufacturing business or factory established in any part of the State, or in any mercantile business in the city of Baltimore.

Ibid. sec. 140. 1892, ch. 443.

226. Any person who shall so employ a child or suffer or permit such employment shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Ibid. sec. 141. 1892, ch. 443.

227. The word "suffer or permit" includes every act or omission whereby it becomes possible for the child to engage in such labor.

Health-Hours of Labor of Street Car Employes.

Ibid. sec. 142. 1886, ch. 163, sec. 1.

228. No horse railway company incorporated under the laws of this State, and no officer, agent or servant of such corporation, and no person or firm owning or operating any line or lines of horse railways within the limits of this State, and no agent or servant of such firm or firms shall require, permit or suffer its, his or their conductors or drivers, or any of them, or any employes in its, his or their service, or under his, its or their control, to work more than twelve hours during each or any day of twenty-four hours, and shall make no contract or agreement with such employes, or any of them, providing that they or he shall work for more than twelve hours during each or any day of twenty-four hours.

Ibid. sec. 143. 1886, ch. 163, sec. 2.

229. Any corporation which shall in any manner violate any of the provisions of the preceding section shall be deemed to have misused or abused its corporate powers and franchises, and the Attorney-General of the State, upon application in writing made by any citizen of this State, accompanied by sufficient proof of such violation, shall forthwith, without further authorization, institute proceedings for the forfeiture of the charter of such corporation by petition in the name of the State, in the manner provided by the laws of this State for the enforcement of the forfeiture of the charter of any corporation which has abused or misused its corporate powers or franchises.

1888, art. 27, sec. 144. 1886, ch. 163, sec. 3.

230. If any corporation or any officer, agent or servant of such corporation, or any person or any firm managing or conducting any horse railway in this State, or any agent or servant of such person or firm, shall do any act in violation of the provisions of Section 228, it, he or they shall be deemed to have been guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof in a court of competent jurisdiction, be fined one hundred dollars for each offense so committed, together with the costs of such prosecution.

Heating Steam Railroad Passenger Cars.

1888, art. 27, sec. 150. 1888, ch. 407. 1890, ch. 377. 1892, ch. 539. 1894, ch. 10.

253. It shall not be lawful for any steam railroad doing business in the State after the first day of July, 1894, to heat its passenger cars by any stove or furnace kept inside of the car, or suspended therefrom, except that it may be lawful in case of accident or other emergency to temporarily use such stove or furnace with necessary fuel; provided, that in cars which have been equipped with apparatus to heat by steam, hot water or hot air from the locomotive, or from a special car. the present stove may be retained to be used only when the car is standing still; and provided, also, that this section shall

not prevent the use of stoves for cooking purposes in dining

room cars.

1894, ch. 269.

254. The Board of Public Works may, when it is shown to their satisfaction by any railroad company that it is impracticable for such railroad company to equip all of its cars with heating apparatus other than stoves within the time required by law, prescribe what number of cars of such railroad company shall be equipped with improved heating apparatus by such company in each year.

255. The provisions and requirements of Section 253 shall not apply to passenger cars while the same are in use as a freight or mixed train; provided that no such mixed trains shall include more than two passenger coaches; that is to say, where passenger cars are attached to freight cars, and together make up a train.

1888, art. 27, sec. 151. 1888, ch. 407.

256. Any person or corporation violating any of the provisions of Section 253 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be liable to a penalty of one thousand dollars, and to the further penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every day during which such violation. shall continue.

Milk-Transportation of by Common Carriers.

1906, ch. 472.

305A. On and after April 15, 1906, no common carrier shall charge for performing the acts of receiving, hauling, icing or delivery between any two stations, wharves or other regular stopping places on its line or branch line, for a distance not exceeding thirty (30) miles, a total rate greater than two (2) cents per gallon for milk or cream, or one and one-half (11⁄2) cents per gallon for butter-milk or skim-milk, or two and onehalf (22) cents per gallon for milk or cream, and two (2) cents per gallon for butter-milk or skim-milk, for a distance not exceeding fifty (50) miles.