Chap. 59.—An ACT to Prevent Fraudulent Conversions of Money or
Property, and the Fraudulent Failure to comply with certain Contracts
or Agreements, and to repeal Sections 20 and 21 of Chapter 188 of
ths Vode of 18738, in Relation to Embezzlement.

Approved February 24, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That if any
person shall, wrongfully and fraudulently, use, dispose of,
conceal or embezzle any money, bill, note, check, order, draft,
bond, receipt, bill of lading, or any other property which he
shall have received for another, or for his employer, princi-
pal or bailor, or by virtue of his office, trust or employment,
or which shall have been entrusted or delivered to him b
another, or by any court, corporation or company, he s
be deemed guilty of the larceny thereof.
2. If any person store or ship goods, wares, merchandise,

rain, flour, or other produce or commodity, in his own name,
being in the possession thereof for or on account of another, and
sell, negotiate, pledge or hypothecate the same, or‘any part
thereof, or the receipt or bill of lading received therefor, and,
fraudulently, fail to account for or pay over to his principal, or
the owner of the property, the amount so received on such sale,
negotiation, pledge or hypothecation, he shall be deemed
guilty of the larceny thereof.

3. If any person shall obtain from another an advance of
money, merchandise or other thing, upon a promise, in wri-
ting, that he will send or deliver to such other person, his
crop or other property, and shall, fraudulently, fail or refuse
to perform such promise, he shall be deemed guilty of the
larceny of such money, merchandise or other thing.

4, Any person prosecuted under this act shall be allowed
to testify in his own behalf.

5. Sections twenty and twenty-one of chapter one hundred
and eighty-cight of the Code of eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-three, are hereby repealed.

6. This act shall be in force from its passage.