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196 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. XXVII
(b) Expose to public view any such flag, standard, color, ensign or
shield, upon which shall have been printed, painted or otherwise pro-
duced, or to which shall have been attached, appended, affixed or annexed
any such word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing or advertisement;
or
(c) Expose to public view for sale, manufacture, or otherwise, or
to sell, give or have in possession for sale, for gift or for use for any
purpose, any substance, being an article of merchandise, or receptacle,
or thing for holding or carrying merchandise, upon or to which shall
have been produced or attached any such flag, standard, color, ensign
or shield, in order to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark or dis-
tinguish such article or substance.
1918, ch. 281, sec. 74B.
74B. (Mutilation.) No person shall publicly mutilate, deface,
defile, defy, trample upon, or by word or act cast contempt upon any
such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield.
1918, ch. 281, sec. 74C.
74C. (Exceptions.) This statute shall not apply to any act per-
mitted by the statutes of the United States (or of this State), or by the
United States Army and Navy Regulations, nor shall it apply to any
printed or written document or production, stationery, ornament, pic-
ture, apparel or jewelry whereon shall be depicted said flag, standard,
color, ensign or shield with no design or words thereon and disconnected
with any advertisement.
1918, ch. 281, sec. 74D.
74D. (Penalty.) Any violation of Section 74A shall be a misde-
meanor and punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
Any violation of Section 74B shall be punishable by a fine of not more
than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one
year, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
1918, ch. 281, sec. 74E.
74E. (Interpretation.) This sub-title shall be so construed as to
effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the laws of the states
which enact it.
1918, ch. 281, sec. 74F.
74F. (Name of Act.) This sub-title consisting of Sections 74 to
74F of this article, both inclusive, may be cited as the Uniform Flag
Law.
Desertion of Wife or Child.
75.
This section referred to in holding that an ante-nuptial agreement was
not a bar to alimony on the ground of abandonment. Walker v. Walker,
125 Md. 660.
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