244 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 30.

pared and used in violation of said section. And it shall be the
duty of any sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable, if he sees any
person violating the preceding section, to arrest the offender and
carry him before a justice of the peace. The sheriff, deputy
sheriff or constable, when he arrests the offender, shall seize the
property hereby declared to be forfeited, or shall seize the same
on a warrant against the offender, if such offender cannot be
found; and the justice of the peace before whom such offender is
convicted, or before whom the warrant is returned that the
offender cannot be found, shall enter judgment of condemnation
against such property, and issue a "fieri facias" for the sale
thereof;. Provided, the person who has been returned not found,
and whose property has been condemned in his absence, may
appear at any time before the sale of the property and have the
case tried, as if he had appeared at the return of the warrant.

166. The provisions of the two preceding sections shall not

apply to any licensed tavern-keeper, merchant, shop-keeper,

farmer, or other person, in the usual and lawful transaction of

his ordinary business, in the usual place of transacting such

business, or to any person having permission in writing from the

supervisor of such meeting, to sell such articles as may be named

in such permission.

167. If any person shall disturb any congregation, society or
meeting assembled for the purpose of religious worship, by blow-
ing horns or trumpets, firing guns, or by any riotous or dis-
orderly conversation, or by any other means, with intent to
interrupt or disturb the worship, devotion, or exercises of such
congregation, society or meeting, or of any of the persons attend-
ing such meeting, he, on conviction before any justice of the
peace in the county wherein such offence shall be committed,
shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty dollars,
and be committed to jail until the fine and costs are paid.

168. If any negro shall, at any time, be found lurking about in
the neighborhood within one mile of any camp-meeting, selling,
bartering or otherwise disposing of spirituous liquors, wine,
porter, beer, cider or other fermented, mixed or strong drink, he
shall, on conviction before a justice of the peace, be sentenced by
the said justice forthwith to receive on his bare back such number
of stripes as he shall order, not less than ten nor more than
thirty-nine.