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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 71.

AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and eighty

of article thirty, of the supplement to the Code of

Public General Laws, relating to Sabbath breaking,

and to re-enact the same with amendments.

Repealing and

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of ,

re-enacting

Maryland, That section one hundred and eighty of

article thirty, of the Code of Public General Laws,

relating to Sabbath breaking, be and the same is

hereby repealed, and the following enacted in lieu

thereof .

SEC. 180. It shall not be lawful to keep open or

Not. lawful to

use any dancing saloon, opera house, ten pin alley,

keep open

barber saloon or ball alley within this State on the

Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday; and any

person or persons, or body politic or corporate, who

shall violate any provisions of this section, or cause,

or knowingly permit the same to be violated by a

person or persons in his, her or its employ, shall be

liable to indictment in any Court of this State, having

criminal jurisdiction, and upon conviction thereof

shall be fined a sum not less than fifty dollars nor

more than one hundred dollars, in the discretion of

Penalty for
first offence

the court, for the first offence ; and if convicted a

second time for a violation of this section, the person

or persons, or body politic or corporate, shall be

fined a sum not less than one hundred rior more than

five hundred dollars; and if a natural person, shall be

imprisoned not less than ten nor more than thirty

days, in the discretion of the court; and in the case

of any conviction or convictions under this section,

Second offence

subsequent to the second, such person or persons,.

body politic or corporate, shall be fined on each

occasion a sum at least double that imposed upon

him, her or them or it, on the last preceding con-

viction, and if a natural person, shall be imprisoned

not less than thirty nor more than sixty days, in the

discretion of the court ; all fines to be imposed under

this section shall be paid to the State.

Approved, 12th March, 1874.