LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1828,

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by this act, or by any other act of this state relative to lotteries,
or the sale of lottery tickets, within this state, his license shall
by any such conviction, become forfeited, and be held absolutely
null and void, and such person shall forever thereafter be debar-
red from receiving any license to vend lottery tickets in this
state ; but no such forfeiture of any license shall prevent any
prosecution on the bond given by such vender to obtain such
license, nor shall such conviction and forfeiture, bar any suitor
recovery upon such bond.

A vender of
tickets con-
victed of
any offence
specified in
this act to
forfeit his
license, &c.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That on the trial of any suit or
prosecution under this act, or any other act of this state, relative
to the sale of lottery tickets within this state, it shall not be
necessary to prove that the ticket, share in any ticket, certificate,
writing or token, of any interest whatsoever in any lottery or
other device or game of chance, or in any prize that shall be
dependent on the drawing or determination of any lottery or
other device or game of chance, sold, vended, bartered, assured,
given, furnished, supplied, procured, notified or registered, or
offered, or agreed to be sold, vended, bartered, assured, given,
furnished, supplied, procured, notified or registered, was signed,
issued or given, by the authority of any person having or as-
suming to have, authority to sign, issue or give the same; but
in all cases, proof of the sale, furnishing, vending, bartering,
giving, procuring, supplying, assuring, notifying or registering of
any ticket, share of any ticket, certificate, writing or token, of
any interest whatsoever in any lottery or other device or game of
chance, or of the offer thereof, or agreement therefor, or of any
paper, instrument or token, written, printed or otherwise, pur-
porting to be a ticket, share or part of a ticket or prize, or to-
assure or entitle any person or persons to any prize or interest
whatsoever, that shall be dependent on the drawing or determi-
nation of any lottery or other device or game of chance, or of the
offer thereof, or of the agreement therefor, shall be conclusive
evidence that such ticket, share or part of a ticket, or prize,
certificate, assurance, writing, instrument, paper or token, was
signed, issued and given according to the purport thereof; and
it shall not be necessary on any trial, civil or criminal, to prove
the existence of any lottery, device or game of chance, in con-
nection with which any such ticket, share or parl of a ticket,
or prize certificate, assurance, writing, instrument, paper or
token, shall purport to have been given, issued or signed, or the
signing of any such ticket, part or share of a ticket, assurance,
certificate, writing, paper or token, in any such real or pretended
lottery, or other device or game of chance.
SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons
within this state, shall offer for sale or disposition, any article of
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Proceedings
in case of
suit or pro-
sedition
under this
act.