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SUPPLEMENT TO THE TOWSON JEFFERSONIAN, TOWSON, MD.—JUNE 26, 1920.
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That this Act shall take effect June 1, 1920.
Approved April 9, 1920. .»— *'
CHAPTER 435. A.N ACT to require under penalty persons, firms or corporations engaged in the business of selling leaf tobacco on or through the Baltimore market, to keep correct records of such sales and to report the same to the Maryland State Board of Agriculture. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen-tral Assembly of Maryland, That every ¦ >erson, firm or corporation, engaged regularly in the business of selling leaf tobacco on or through the Baltimore market, either for the account of the grower, owner or other principal, or for his, its or their own account, shall keep a correct ;iccount upon a form to be prescribed by the Maryland State Board of Agriculture, of- the number of hogsheads and total pounds of leaf tobacco sold daily by such person, firm or corporation, and tbat said account verified by oath shall on or before the fifth day of each succeeding month be returned or delivered to the Executive Officer of the Maryland State Board of Agriculture. The form. of said account to be prepared by the said the Maryland State Board of Agriculture as aforesaid, shall be so arranged and classified as to show under three separate clssifications or headings, entitled 'Southern Maryland Tobacco," "Up Country Tobacco" and "Tobacco Produced Outside of Maryland" : first, the number of pound? of tobacco sold for the producers of tobacco first hand; second, the number of pounds sold for dealers, and third, the number of pounds bought for the account of the said person, firm or corporation making said report, or for the account of some other person, firm or corporation engaged in selling leaf tobacco. That each person, firm or corporation engaged in selling leaf tobacco as aforesaid, shall keep its books in such manner as to show the warehouse hogshead number, weight, tare and aet, date of sale, of each hogshead of tobacco, to whom the same was sold and at-what price per pound and the account or report required to be made as aforesaid to the Maryland State Board of Agriculture shall show clearly the average price received by such person, firm or corporation for tobacco sold during the month. When such information is received by the Executive Officer of the Maryland State Board of Agriculture, he shall immediately cause same to be copied in a book kept for that purpose, and shall in said book keep separate and apart the returns to him from each of said persons, firms or cororations. so as to show,the number of pounds of tobacco sold by each for producers, the number of pounds resold for dealers or commission merchants, or any selling agency, and the number of pounds purchased for the person, firm or corporation for its own account, together with the average price received by such person, firm, corporation or agency upon total of all sales; the Maryland State. Board of Agriculture shall so prepare the form of the account or report to be made by the paid persons, firms or corporations engaged in the sale of leaf tobacco through the Baltimore market that when the same are returned to it as hereinbefore required, the said account or report shall contain the information hereinbefore specified, and it shall be the duty of said persons, firms and corporations engaged in the sale of leaf tobacco on or through the Baltimore market as aforesaid, to fully and correctly give the information called for by the said the Maryland State Board of Agriculture, in said form of account or report; provided, however, that this and the two succeeding sections of this Act shall not apply to any person, firm or corporation engaged solely in the buying of leaf tobacco, either for his, their or its own account, or for resale or for the account of a principal.
Sec. 2. Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the sale of leaf tobacco on or through the Baltimore market, who shall fail to keep his, their or its books as described in the foregoing section, or who shall fail to make the report required therein, or who shall wilfully make any false report or make a false statement in said report to the Maryland State Board of Agriculture, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and unnn conviction shal Ibe fined not less than $25.00 or more than $1,000.00. or shall be imprisoned for not less than ten days or more than six months, or be subject to both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted. That the Executive Officer of the Maryland State Board of Agriculture shall keep the books mentioned in Section 1 open to the inspection of the public, and shall on or before the tenth day of each month after the receipt of the accounts or reports re-f.uirod in Section 1 to be made to the said the Maryland State Board of Agriculture, cajist a summary of said renorts to be miblished in the monthly bulletin issued by the Maryland State College of Agriculture, and in one or more journals published in the interest of the growth, sale and manufacture of tobacco in the State, or of a large circulation therein, and further than this summary shall also be transmitted by the said Executive Officer to each of the daily papers published in Baltimore, and to each of the county papers published in the tobacco growing counties of the State, and to any farm papers published within the State.
Sec 4. And be it further enacted. That this Act is hereby declared to be an emergency law necessary for the immediate preservation of the public safety, anc^ being passed upon a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved April 9, 1920.
CHAPTER 408. AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with Amendments Sections 107, 200 and 201 of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Revenue and Taxes." sub-title "Taxation of Dogs," as said esections were enacted by Chapter 497 of the Acts of 1918, relating to the employment of special officers, the awarding of damages and the prosecution of offenders. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland. That Sections 197, 200 and 201 of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Revenue and Taxes." sub-title "Taxation of Dogs," as said sections were enacted by Chapter 497 of the Acts of 1918, be and they are hereby repealed and £e-enacted to read ns follows:
197. Any Justice of the Peace of the several counties after having received and receipted for necessary blanks and tags. may issue such dog licenses and tags in like manner as prescribed for the issuance of licenses by the County Treasurer. When a license is issued by the Justice of Peace, the said Justice of the Peace may .retain as his fee for the issuance of said license, reporting the same, and remitting payment therefor, to the County Treasurer, or Clerk of the County Commissioners in Counties having no Treasurer, the sum of twenty-five cents. Such report and remittance shall be made by the Justice of the Peace at the end of each month ; whereupon the County Treasurer shall make a record of, and otherwise treat, said license as though it had been issued from his office, except that he shall also note upon his record the name of the Justice issuing the license. Every Jus-Wce ol Vne IVace sfaa'u deliver' the book or books from which he had issued license, together with the stubs therein properly filled out and showing the name of each license and the number of the license issued to him to the county treasurer or Clerk to the County Commissioners in counties having no Treasurer before the first day of July of each year. Any person becoming the owner after the first day of July of any dog six months or over-which has not already been licensed, or any person owning or keeping a'dog which became six months old at any time after the first day of July of any year, shall forthwith apply for and secure a license for such dog in the same manner as the annual license is obtained under the provisions of this Act.
The County Commissioners of the wtierdl counties are authorized to provide for the employment cf special officers or Constables whose duty it shall be to enforce the payment of the dog license fees or ta,rcs provided in this Act, and the said Commissioners are authorized to pay such special officers out of the moneys arising' {rom the snid dog license or taxes in the
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respective Counties.
These,Constables of the several counties may also Eeceive and receipt for necessary blanks and tags, may issue such dog licenses and tags in like manner as prescribed for the issuance of licenses by c County Treasurer or a Justice of the Peace. Every Constable shall at the end of each month report to the County Treasure^ or Clerk to the County Commissioners in Counties having no Treasurer the number and character of licenses issued and remit all moneys received for these licenses. Also every Constable shall deliver the book or books from which he issued _ license, together with the stubs therein, properly filled out and showing the name and the number of the license issued to him to the County Treastirer, or Clerk to the County Commissioners in Counties having no Treasurer, before the first day of July of each year.
200. When any inhabitant of any County shall have any sheep, poultry or live stock destroyed or injured by a dog or dogs, he may apply to any Justice of the Peace of said County, who shall appoint three disinterested persons as appraisers to view and appraise the damages by him sustained, ana they, or a majority of them, under oatti, shall state in writing to the County Commissioners of said County, the number of sheep, poultry, or live stock killed, the character and extent of the injury, if any done, and the amount of the damages sustained by the owner; and both the appraisers and the owner of the sheep, poultry or live stock shall make oath that they believe the same to have been destroyed or injured by a dog or dogs; and when the report of such proceedings has been filed, the County Commissioners of said County shall review said report, and if in their judgment the amount of damages stated is unfair, they shall award such amount as they may deem fair; which award shall be paid out of the fund hereby ereated; provided, however, that the said sworn report of the appraisers shall be deemed prima facie evidence of the fairness of the award of damages in each instance; and provided, further, that the County Commisioncrs shall not change such an award unless they shall have personal knowledge of its unfairness, or shall receive competent testimony to the effect that the award is in excess of a fair commercial valuation of the sheep, poultry or live stock injured or destroyed by dogs. And if the owner of the dog or dogs doing the damage be known, it shall be the duty of the County Commisioners to notify such owner or owners to kill said dog or dogs immediately. If such dog or dogs killed by the owner, after notice as aforesaid, he shall be exempt from all further liability, but in case the said owner or owners should refuse or neglect to.- kill said dog or dogs upon notice as aforesaid, the said owner or owners shall be liable to the County Commissioners for said damages to the same extent as he would be liable in case of negligence or malicious destruction of property, and the said County Commissioners may in their discretion have the special officers or Constables to kill said dog or dogs.
201. Any person violating or refusing to comply with any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace of the County in which he resides, or in the Circuit Court of said County, shall be fined a sum of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars or shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than thirty days, or shall be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the Court. It shall be the duty of the State's Attorney, the Sheriff and the Constables of the several Counties of the State to prosecute all persons found violating the law by refusing to comply with its provisions. Provided that nothing in this Act shall apply to the City of Baltimore. _ All laws or parts of laws, whether public general laws or public local laws, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect June 1, 1920.
Approved April 9, 1920.
CHAPTER 549. &
AN ACT to, repeal and re-enact with amendment Sections 5 and 7 of Article 62 of the Public General Laws of Maryland (Bagby) title "Marriages," raising .the age at which a person may obtain a marriage license as a contracting party to a marriage in the State of Maryland, from the age of sixteen years to the age of eighteen years. Section 1. No such license shall issue unless the male be above the age of twenty-one years and the female above the age of ((sixteen)) eighteen years; provided, however, that if the parents or guardian assent thereto in person or by writing attested by two witnesses, such license may issue and the fact of such assent shall be made part of the record aforesaid.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 16, 1920.
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or ruffed grouse, rabbit, wild turkey, woodcock, squirrel or deer, within the State of Maryland between the first day if January and the tenth day of November in any year, exclusive of both dates. Nor upon Sunday, or when the ground is sufficiently covered with snow to track the birds and game above mentioned. And there shall be a daily closed season on all the above enumerated game birds and animals at night time.
And no person or persons, corporation or corporations shall sell, offer for sale, purchase or offer to purchase, or buy at any time within the State of Maryland any bobwhite or partridge or Chinese Ringneck pheasant, native pheasant or ruffed grouse, or wild turkey, either dead or alive, excepting live birds of such species as may be sold for propagation purposes only; and it sh-aU be unlaicful to sell, offer for sale, purchase or offer to purchase, or buy such named birds and animals at any time whether same are caught or killed within the State of Maryland, or any other State, Territory or Country. And in order to establish the ringneck pheasant in Maryland as an additional game bird, it shall be unlawful to shoot or trap or kill or take in any manner, at any time any female ringneck pheasant of any variety. Provided, hoic-ever, such female ringneck pheasants if raised in captivity may.be killed on the premises where raised by other means than by shooting, during the open season, or some may be sold alive for propagating and restocking. Penalties for violation of the provisions of this section are found in Section 21 of Code, Article 99.
Sec 2. All laws, both local or general, inconsistent with the provisions of the section, whether passed at this session of the Legislature or at former sessions, are hereby repealed. And this Act shall take effect from June 1. 1920.
Approved April 16, 1920.
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CHAPTER 573. AN ACT to amend Article 15. title "Chancery." sub-title "Infants," as the same appears in Volume 1 of Bag-by's Annotated Code of the Laws of Maryland, by adding a new section thereto to be known as 77-A, to follow immediately after Section 77 in said Code. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland. That a new section be and the same is to be added to Volume I of Bagby's Annotated Code of the Laws of Maryland, the same to be known as Section 77-A, and to follow immediately after Section 77 in said Code.
77-A. The several equity courts of this State shall have original jurisdiction in all cases relating to the custody or guardianship of children and may on bill or petition filed by the father or mother or relative or next of kin or next friend of any child or children to direct who shall have the custody or guardianship of such child or children, and who shall be charged with his, her or their support and maintenance, and may from time to time thereafter annul, vary or modify its decree or order in relating to such child or children, provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to take away or impair the jurisdiction of the several Juvenile Courts in this State and of the Juvenile Court of Baltimore City in cases relating to dependent or delinquent children, or be taken or construed to repeal or modify the provisions of Section 20 of Article 42 of the Code of Public General Laws.
Approved April 9, 1920.
CHAPTER 564.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 5 of Article 12 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Bastardy and Fornication," requiring new bond to be given in certain cases. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland. That Section 5 of Article 12 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Bastardy and Fornication." be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as follows :
5. Immediately upon the passage of said order, said justice of the peace shall transmit the original papers and a transcript of the proceedings had before him to said Circuit Court or the Criminal Court of the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, and thereupon, but not before said woman shall have been delivered, the same proceedings shall be had as in other criminal cases, and if the accused person shall be found guilty by the verdict of a jury, or by the Court, if the case be tried before the Court, the Court shall immedi-atelly order such person to give bond to the State of Maryland in a penalty not exceeding $500. with good and sufficient securities conditioned to pay for the maintenance and support of said child, to the mother, or to the person having said child in custody, or to the county or to the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, if said child be a Dublic charge, until said child reaches the age of twelve years, or during the life of such child if said child die before reaching the age of twelve years, such sum, not exceeding $15 per month, as the Court shall by order direct, due regard being had to the circumstances of such accused person, and further to pay the' whole or such part of the expenses incurred by the said mother during her confinement as the Court may direct and to pay the reasonable funeral expenses of said child if he or she shall die under the age of twelve years; in default of such bond he shall be committed to jail or the House of Correction until said bond be given, but not exceeding two years. In the event that any person who goes security on said bond shall die or become insolvent, the said Court shall require a new bond to be given in the same'penalty and on the condition as the original bond, v?A nvi tAz j other person for them, file a petition in said court, requesting said court that said person or persons so confined be immediately brought before said court to test said question of sanity or insanity or mental disorder; and such court is authorized and directed to forthwith enpanel a jury in the usual way, to summon witnesses and to hear evidence, and sand jury shall determine the question of the sanity or insanity of said person, and whether or not said person is laboring under any mental disorrer, and if the jury determine that said person or persons is insane or suffering from some mental disorder, the said -ergon shall be immediately remanded to the institution in (which confined; but if said jury shall determine that said person or persons is sane ; or is not laboring under any mental disorder, such person shall be immediately released and discharged from custody. Approved April 16, 1920.
CHAPTER 697. AN ACT to amend Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Elections," sub-title "Election Expenses— Corrupt Practices," by adding a new section to be known as Section 173-A and to follow immediately after Section 173. to prohibit the publication and distribution of any anonymous literature about candidates at any election. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Elections," sub-title "Election Expenses—Corrupt Practices," be, and it is hereby amended by addine a new section to be known as Section 173-A and to follow immediately after Section 173, and to read as follows:
173-A. It shall be unlawful and shall be deemed a corrupt practice for any person, association, organization, committee or corporation to publish or distribute or cause to be published or distributed any pamphlet, circular, card, dodger, poster, advertisement or any printed, multi-graphed, photographed, typewritten or written matter or statement or any matter or statement which may be copied by any device or method now known for printing or copying or which may hereafter be used for making copies of printed or written matter in any form whatever for publication or distribution, relating to or concerning any candidate or prospective candidate for public office, unless such pamphlet, circular, card, dodger, poster, advertisement or other form of publication herein described contains the name or names of the person or persons, association, committee or corporation responsible for the publication or distribution of the same, and if an association, committee or corporation is responsible for the publication or distribution of the same, there shall be attached the names of the officers of such association, committee or corporation. _ Any person violating any provision of this section, or aiding and abetting the violation thereof, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, nor more than one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars, or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both fined and imprisoned.
Approved April 16, 1920.
CHAPTER 700. AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 437 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (Volume 3), title "Crimes and Punishments," sub-title "Sabbath-breaking." Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Section 437 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (Volume 3). title "Crimes and Punishments," sub-title "Sabbath-breaking," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
_ 437. No person in this State shall sell, dispose of, barter, or deal in, or give away any articles of merchandise on Sunday, except retailers, who may sell and deliver on said day tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, candy, sodas and soft drinks, ice, ice cream, ices and other confectionery, milk, bread, fruits, gasoline, oils and greases; and any person violating any one of the provisions of this section shall be liable to indictment in any court in this State having criminal jurisdiction, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined a sum not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, in the discretion of the court, for the first offense, and if convicted a second time for a violation of this section, the person or persons so offending shall be fined a sum not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned for not less than ten nor more than thirty clays, in the discretion of the court, and his, her or their license, if any was issued, shall be declared null and void by the judge of said court; and it shall not be lawful for such person or persons to obtain another license for the period of twelve months from the time of such conviction, nor shall a license be obtained by any other person or persons to carry on said business on the premises or elsewhere, if the person so as aforesaid convicted, has any interest whatever therein, or shall derive any profit whatever therefrom ; and in case ef being convicted more than twice for a violation of this section, such person or persons on each occasion shall be imprisoned for not less than thirty nor more than sixty days, and fined a sum not less than double that imposed on such person or persons on the last preceding conviction ; and his. her or, their license, if any was issued, shall be declared nidi and void by the court, and no new license shall be issued to such person or persons for a period of two years from the time of such conviction, nor to anyone 4se to carry on said business wherein hf or she is in anywise interested, as befdr* provided for the second violation of the brovj.siong of this section; all .the lines to be imposed under this section shall be pj State. This Section is not to apply to apothecaries, and such apothecaries may sell on Sunday drugs, medicines and patent medicines as on week days; and this Section shall not apply to the sale of newspapers and periodical. Approved April 16, 1920.
CHAPTER'701.
AN ACT to add a ne\j^eetion to Article
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land. Volume 3, tile "Crimes and Punishments," sub-t;le "Fraud—Advertisements," said uw section to be known as Section hO-C, to prevent fraud in the sale ad advertisement of "Kosher" foods. Section 1. Be it enated by the General Assembly of Marylnd, That a new section be added to Artice 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland Volume 3, title "Crimes and Punishnmts," sub-title "Fraud—Advertisements, to be known & Section 160-C and to rea< as follows :
160-C. Any person r persons who, with intent to defraud, sells or exposes for sale any meat or mat preparations or any fowl or preparatios from fowl, and falsely represents the sam to be/'Kosher" or as having been prepaid under, and of a product or products snetioned by the orthodox Hebrew religias requirements, or falsely represents any'ood products or the contents of any pachge or container to. be so constituted and -repared by having or permitting to be iscribed thereon the word "Kosher" in ny language or having the word "Kosher inscriBed on the front of their business ^stablishrnent in any language, is guilty o a misdemeanor,
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punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars or more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment of not less than thirty days or more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the Court. Approved April 9, 1920.
CHAPTER 703. AN ACT -to add three new sections to Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland (Bagby's Code), entitled "Crimes and Punishments," sub-title "Counterfeiting and Forgery." and to provide punishments and penalties for the violation of the same. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That three' new sections be and the same are hereby added to Article 27 of Bagby's Annotated Code of Public General Laws of the State of Maryland, title "Crimes and Punishments," sub-title "Counterfeiting and Forgery." said new sections to follow immediately after Section 62 and to be known as 62-A, 62-B and 62-C, and to read as follows:
Sec 62-A. Any person who, without the authority of the person or corporation issuing, selling or giving away any ticket, coupon, token, coin, disc or slug or any other thing as evidence of the right of any person or persons to enter, le ive, ride upon or pass through or over any building, ground, public conveyance, boat, bridge or other thing or place, to enter, leave, ride upon or pass through or over which any fare or fee is charged, whether said ticket, coin, coupon or disc or slug or other thing is intended or designed or used to be inserted in a box or machine for collection of fare sor fees, or to be taken up by a collector, shall make, utter, forge or counterfeit or cause or procure to be made, uttered, forged or counterfeited or shall aid or assist in making, uttering, forging or counterfeiting, or utter or pass knowing it to be so made, uttered, forged or counterfeited .any such ticket, coupon, token, coin, dice or slug or any othe rthing so issued, sold or given away by any person or corporation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction in any Court of this State shall be sentenced to the Jail or House of Correction for not more than one year.
Sec 62-B. Any person who shall operate, or cause to be operated, or who shall attempt to operate, or attempt to cause to be operated any automatic Vending machine, slot machine, coin-box telephone or other receptacle, designed to receive lawful coin-of the United States of America in connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service, by means of a slug or any false counterfeit, mutilated, sweated or foreign coin, or by any means, method, trick or device whatsoever not lawfully authorized by the owner, lessee or licensee of such machine, coin-box. telephone or receptacle; or who shall take, obtain or receive from or in connection with any automatic vending machine, slot machine, coin-box, telephone or receptacle designed to receive coin of the United States of America in connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service, any goods, wares, merchandise, gas, electric current, article of value or the use or enjoyment of any telephone or telegraph facilities or service, or of any musical instrument, phonograph or other property, without depositing in and surrendering to such machine, coinbox, telephone or receptacle lawful coin of the United States of America to the amount required therefor by the owner, lessee or licensee of such machine, coinbox, telephone or receptable, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00 or by imprisonment not to exceed three months, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Sec 62-C. Any person who. with intent to cheat or defraud the owner, lessee, licensee or other person entitled to the contents of any automatic vending machine, slot machine, coin-box, telephone or other receptacle, depository or contrivance'designed to receive lawful coin of the United States of America in connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service, or who. knowing that the same is intended for unlawful use. shall manufacture for sale, or sell or give away any slua:. device or substance whatsoever intended or calculated to be placed or deposited in any such automatic vending machine, slot machine, coin-box. telephone or other such receptacle, depository or contrivance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00 or by imprisonment not to exceed three months, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Sec 2. And be it further enacted. That all Acts inconsistent herewith be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved April 9, 1920.
CHAPTER 724. AN ACT to add a new section to Article 97 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Weights and Measures," said new section to be numbered Section 27-A and to follow immediately after Section 27 of said Article, making it a msidemeanor to give short weight or short measure. Section 1. Be it enacted hn the General Assembly of Maryland. That a new section be added to Article 97 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Weights and Measures." said new section to be numbered Section 27-A. to follow immediately after Suction 27 of said Article, and to read as follows:
27-A. Any person, firm or corporation, or agent, employee or officer of any person, firm or corporation who shall knowingly and wilfully give short weight or short measure to any one purchasing any article or commoditv shall be guiltv of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. A warrant for the arrest of any person, or agent, employees or officer of any person, firm or corporation may be issued at thp instance of the purchaser receiving the short weight or measure or at the instance of' any inspector of weights and measures in the State of Maryland.
Sec 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take effect June 1, 1920 Approved April 16, 1920.
THINGS WORTH KNOWING
To drive a nail easily and last long without rusting, dip it into melted grease first.
The 16 sheep in the flock owned by Clifton Morse, of Center Montville, Me., have produced 25 fine lambs this year, with nine pairs of twins among' them.
Almost every Bulgarian peasant Is a sheep owner and much wool is usei at home for domestic purposes. Nn peasant's wardrobe is complete witb out a sheepskin coat.
_ Automobile "windows"carTbe opened, closed or locked in any position by a device consisting of a pair of sprocket, wheels, one equipped with an operating crank and the other with a balancing spring.
DS IN COMBAT
Feathered Creatures Sometimes Battle to the Death.
Contrary to Pretty Theory, Perfect
Peace Does Not Always Reign
Within Those "Little Nests"
as Sung by Poet.
"Birds in their little nests agree,' wrote Doctor Watts. If The eminent preacher had chanced to witness an incident similar to that which I saw the other day, says a writer in the London Daily Mail, he would never have penned that libel/ *
I was walking across a London golf course when two sparrows shot past my head, chattering violently, and, coming to ground a few yards away, set to fighting so furiously that I was actually able to pick them both up in my hands.
I let one go at once; the other 1 carried a little distance before liberating it. Will you believe it?—a moment later the two were at it again. beak and claws.
Almost all birds fight, furiously in the springtime. Even turtle doves, those emblems of peace, will go for one another in the mating season.
The various methods of offense adopted by different birds are interesting. Sparrows use their powerful beaks but hold one another with their claws. Starlings fight in exactly similar fashion. Their combats are at times most desperate. A friend saw one cock starling actually kill anotbej>'
Pigeons use their wings but rarely do one another much harm. Swans fight with their wings, and their strength is so great that their battles sometimes result fatally. I have, however, seen a swan apparently endeav. oring to hold the head of a rival under water, but I was not near enough to make out what happened.
Some birds have spurs on their wings. The spur-winged goose, which is a small,' long-legged bird and rather resembles a duck on stilts, has extraordinary wing power. One of these geese went for a gardener who had gone into its inclosure in the "zoo'' and gave him a blow on the knee that laid him up for a week. The crested screamer has actually double spurs on its wings and is a very awkward customer to tackle.
All the birds of prey use their talon? as their principal weapons. The strength which lies in the talons of even a small hawk is almost incredible. As for an eagle, one has been known to drive its claws clean through the skull of a large tomcat into the brain, killing the animal instantly.
The pheasants are the only family of birds provided with spurs. Our domestic fowls are, of course, members of this genus, and it is in the game fowl that the spur is developed to the greatest perfection. These leg spur.-' resemble the horns of cattle, in that they have a bony core protected by a smooth sheath of horn.
The guinea-fowl, again, is singular in that it has a blunt horn upon its head which it uses as an offensive weapon.
I have never seen two herons fight, but if they did they would use their beaks and their beaks alone. The driving power of the long, sharp-pointed beak of a heron is immense, and when a heron is hawked you may see it endeavor to spit its smaller assailant upon its beak.
An ostrich farmer tells me that he has known an ostrich to pierce a sheet of corrugated iron with one tremendous kick.
HELGOLAND OF THE ADRIATIC
Island of Cherso Has Become Point of
Importance on the New Map
of Europe.
The Versailles conference set Amer-icans searching the gazetteers for Yap; the, San Remo conference turns the spotlight to another obscure island —Cherso.
"Practically unheard of on this side* of the Atlantic, eluding most travelers, even escaping many of the seekers after the little-known places of Europe. Cherso neithei is inaccessible^ nor unattractive," says a bulletin from the National Geographic society. "It dangles like a pendant in the Gulf of Quarnero, low hung, from the neck of Flume. It is the Long Island of that port, its shore line rising 12 miles to the south of D'Annunzio's present stronghold. Its slender form extends "to the southwest for 40 miles, though* it never exceeds seven miles in widthy and its area is somewhat more than twice that of the District of Columbia..
"Holding in mind this location, near the head of the Adriatic, in view of the tentative plans to make Fiume a buffer state between Italy and Jugoslavia, the strategic possibilities of Cherso become apparent. Indeed, one may picture it as a potential Helgoland of the Adriatic.
"Cherso lies off t!:e shores of the northern part of Dalmatia and the Croatian littoral, a region formerly known as Morlacchia. The Morlaeehia channel preserves this name, originating with the Slavic invaders ol Dalmatia, who 'called the Latinized people they found there Vlachs, or Mav-ro-Vlachs—black Vlachs.' Thus the Slavs of this region have come to be known, by a corruption of this title, as Morlachs.
"In rural districts Morlacchian women retain their historic costume, which includes a kerchief for the head, many strands of beads, a waist band from which hang amulets and various trinkets, and, over a blue cloth gown, an apron of exquisite embroidered pattern. About her neck an unmarried girl wears a string of coins and rings which comprise her dowry. Formerly the men wore their hair in a plait, which their wives were expected to comb, adorn with ribbons and charms, and anoint with fats."
New Clothes on an Ol' One. A salesman up in gasoline row was telling how be almost had a bit of good luck. "As I was coming in on the Bluff road, the other evening, just after dark," he said, "I saw a good tire at the side of the road. There Tvas not a house within a half-mile, so I stopped the car and beat it back to get the tire. It was a new one. I could tell that as I passed it. But when I got up within ten feet of it, it started to move, and over into the field it went. Just then I heard two boys laugh." Three of the salesman's audience sang out, "Yes, we tried to get that same tire on the first night in April."—Indianapolis News.
Massasoit Statue.
It is thought that the bronze statue of Massasoit which is to be presented to the town of Plymouth by the national organization of the Improved Order of Red Men will be located on Watson's hill instead of Cole's hill; where -some of the Pilgrims lie who died during the first winter after their arrival at Plymouth. This latter place is considered more appropriate than Cole's hill, as it jwas resorted by Indians and they hot only lived there* but had feasts, as remains have shown, while skeletons of the original inhabitants have been found. Their name for the place was Cantaugantiest. It was south of this hill the settlers first heard the Indians and on the crest Df the hill they appeared to the people in the colony. It was there also they came from when Massasoit came across Town brook to make the famous treaty with the whites.
Interested persons have been looking over the hill to ascertain what it offered for a site for the monument to the great Indian chieftain, and there is at least one open lot which commands? a fine view of the bay and town.
Novel on a Sheet of Paper. The publishing house of Bailey Bar-Here in Madrid is publishing complete novels, each printed on one large sheet of paper, folded once, about the size of a four-page newspaper. The type is arranged in book-size pages, so that by folding the sheet several times and cutting the pages the pur chaser has an unbound book. The first novel thus published—"Jose," bj A. Palacio Valdes—was sold for five centavos, or about 1 cent.—From the Writer.
A cat walked out on a high tension wire in a big drop forge plant at Fremont, O., lost aU its nine lives at onee, and caused a short circuit which burned out the insulation and, threw 300 men out of work. V
Two men visitors in Palestine, Tex., Saturday made a bargain that put the high cost of shoes down for the time. One man had lost his left leg, the other his right. They were the same number and bought one pair of good shoes. Each was pleased and fitted, the one with the rieht shoe, the other < with the leifc.
Names "Wickedest Place." 4 "Port Said still is the wickedest place on earth," said Brig. Gen. J. H Bateson, principal of Wesleyan chap el, in an address to soldiers at Car diff, Wales.
"I know Calcutta, Bombay and Madras better than I know London," he continued. "I have had to live in the East for a quarter of a century, and 1 know what Cairo and Ismalia are; but I hay^seen_morjeJaux.and nppm&
ances of sin in one hour in Port Said than in all the rest of my experiences."
Two in One.
Recently the six-year-old son of the family attempted to take up the question of future habitation with his three-year-old brother with the follqw-ing result:
"Where are you going when you die. Billy?"
"In my grave."
"I mean are you going to heaven too."
Slow.
"Well," said ihe genial old gentleman, "are you getting ready for the next war?"
"I should say not," replied the former doughboy. "Why, I haven't written a book about the last war yet."— Birmingham Aee-.J?erald.
Nickel Money.
Nickels—which are really coppe3C nickel, being a mixture of the two-metals—were first coined in this country to give encouragement to nickeE mining, important deposits having been found in Pennsylvania.
Since then many other uses for the metal have been found. But at the present time S5 per cent of the world's supply of nickel is derived from the mines of the Sudbury district, in Canada, where the reserves of ore are enormous. Of the balance, France produces the bulk, contributing 11 per tent.
It has been suggested that Great Britain, practically controlling as she does the world's nickel, might switch from cheapened gold and make the white metal the basis t>f her currency.. —Philadelphia Ledger.
Ossian. Ossian, a mythical Gaelic hero and bard, is said to have lived in the third century, and ^to have been the son of Fingal, a Caledonian prince and hero* whom he accompanied on various expeditions. The story goes that Ossian was carried away by his fairy hind-mother to the "isle of the ever young," but he returned later, and then old, blind and alone, "Ossian after the Feinn," he told the story of the heroes to St. Patrick. In 176C-6S James Mcpherson published two epics. which he claimed to be translations from Ossiaji's poems.
World's Laziest Town. A little seaport in New Zealand, called Russell, was described as the sleepiest place in the world. Herbert Garrison, a lecturer, said residents of the town took life so easily that, although the fish were jumping out of the water asking to be caught, the people preferred to eat tinned salmon from British Columbia. Rather than be put to the trouble of milking their own cows, they imported condensed milk from Switzerland. "
Oath No Light Matter in Siam.
The following Siamese oath reposed by "The Office Dog," indicates that in Siam perjury is no light matter: "May the blood drop from my body; may my head break in two; may the crocodiles devour me; may I be compelled to carry water in wicker baskets to quench the flames of hell; may I suffer the most horrible tortures until my years are as many as the grains of sand by the sea, if I violate this my solemn oath."—World Outlook.
Air Travel to Be Popular Soon. Henry Ford says that Berlin, London and New York will, within a few years, be only a day apart. The Pacific will be crossed by air and transcontinental travel in light and speedy airships will be common within three to five years.
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