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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1826.

Act to be
given in
charge to
grand juries

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
several county courts, and of the city court of Baltimore, to
give this act in charge to their respective grand juries.

No license
to authorize
the esta-
blishment of
more than
one office.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act con-
tained, shall be construed to authorize any person or persons,
obtaining a license under this act, to open, establish or set up,
more than one office under every such license.

CHAPTER 72.
AN ACT relating to the removal of Causes for Trial to the Third Judicial
District.

No cause
removed for
trial to be
taken up
until origi-
nal business
is disposed
of.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
no cause, civil or criminal, removed, upon suggestion, to the
third judicial district, shall be taken up for trial, until all the
business originating in the county to which such cause may
be removed, ready for trial, and which shall require the inter-
vention of a jury, shall be tried, dismissed, continued, or other-
wise disposed of, for that term.

CHAPTER 88.
AN ACT to prevent Gaming.
Other acts are, 1829, ch. 136; 1830, ch. 55.

Penalty on
persons
convicted of
keeping ga-
ming tables,
&c.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That every person who shall be duly convicted of keeping any
E. O. table, or any other kind of gaming table, (billiard tables
excepted,) at which the game of Pharo, Equality, or any other
game of chance, shall he played for money, or of keeping any
bank, and inducing or permitting any person or persons to bet
against said bank, or of strolling about the country from place
to place, and deriving a support and maintenance chiefly from
gaming, or of permitting the same to be kept or practised in
any tavern or house, stall or booth, of which he, she or they,
may be the keeper or keepers, proprietor or proprietors, occu-
pant or occupants, shall, for the first offence, forfeit and pay a
sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, nor less than one
thousand dollars, and be imprisoned for a period, in the discre-
tion of the court, not exceeding twelve months, and upon the
second conviction, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding
four thousand dollars, nor less than two thousand dollars, and
be imprisoned for a period not exceeding two years, nor less
than three months.
The fine in this section is reduced by 1829, ch. 136, sec. 1.

Fines, how
to be paid.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all fines imposed under this
act shall be paid, one-half to the informer, and the other half to
the state.

Part of an
act repealed

SEC. 3, And be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That
so much of the seventh section of an act of assembly, entitled,