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106. If any person shall wilfully break the seal of any letter
or package belonging to the public, he shall, on conviction
thereof, be fined two hundred dollars, one-half to the informer
and the other half to the State.

LOTTERIES.

107. No person shall draw any lottery or sell any lottery
ticket in this State, nor shall any person sell what are called
policies, certificates, or any thing by which the vendor or other
person promises or guarantees that any particular number, cha-
racter, ticket or certificate shall in any event or on the happening
of any contingency entitle the purchaser or holder to receive
money, property or evidences of debt.

108. All devices and contrivances designed to evade the pro-
visions of the preceding section shall be deemed as offences
against it.

109*. Every person, his aiders and abettors, offending against
any of the provisions of the two preceding sections, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof,
shall be fined for each offence any sum in the discretion of the
court, not less than two hundred dollars nor exceeding 'one
thousand dollars, or imprisoned not less than three nor more
than twelve months, or may be both fined and imprisoned as
aforesaid.

110*. In addition to the penalties prescribed in the preceding
section, any person who may give money or any other thing
for any lottery ticket, certificate or any other device by which
the vendor promises that he or any other person will pay or
deliver to the purchaser any money, property or evidence of
debt, on the happening of any contingency in the nature of
a lottery, such person so giving may recover, as small debts
are recoverable, from the person to whom he gave the same,
or his aiders or abettors, the sum of fifty dollars for every
lottery ticket, certificate or other device in the nature thereof
so purchased or obtained by him, and such person shall be a
competent witness to prove the giving of the money or other
thing.

111*. If any person shall keep any house, office or other place
for the purpose of selling or bartering any lottery ticket, policy,