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Physician. 690-700. Duties of. Visitors. 701, 702. Rules relating to. Warden. 703-721. Powers, discipline and duties. Assistant Warden. 722-724. Authority and duties of. Rules and Regulations. 725. Board of directors to prescribe.

United States Convicts. 726. Warden to receive prisoners sen- tenced by federal courts in Mary- land. 727. Payment of per diem of such pris- oners. Process Against Corporations in Criminal Cases. 728. Summons or notice. 729. Appearance; trial; execution.

I.

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.
Abduction.

1904, art. 27, sec. 1. 1888, art. 27, sec. 1. 1876, ch. 324, sec. 1. 1890, ch. 44S.
1. Any person who shall, for purposes of prostitution, fornication
or concubinage, forcibly abduct from her home or usual place of abode
or from the custody and control of her parent or parents or guardian
any female under the age of eighteen years, or be accessory thereto, or
who shall for said purpose persuade or entice from her usual place of
abode, or from the custody and control of her parent or parents or guar-
dian, any such female, or be accessory thereto, or shall knowingly
secrete or harbor any such female so abducted, persuaded or enticed as
aforesaid, against the consent of her parent or parents or guardian, or
the person or persons who may have the temporary care, custody or
control of such female, or be accessory thereto, shall, upon conviction,
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall undergo imprisonment in
the penitentiary, in the discretion of the court, not exceeding the term
of eight years; provided, that nothing contained in this section shall
apply to cases pending nor to violations of the law which have hereto-
fore occurred, but all such cases and violations shall be prosecuted as if
the law hereby repealed were still in force.

In an indictment under this section, it is competent for the traverser to
prove the following facts: that the prosecutrix went to the traverser's
house of her own accord and without inducement; that she went with the
consent of her mother, or for any other purpose than that of prostitution;
that the traverser made an effort to .get a home for her; that the prosecu-
trix during the time she was in the traverser's house did not have inter-
course with any one; the character for chastity of the prosecutrix and that
she was a "girl of the town." The fact that the traverser was the keeper
of a bawdy house was prima facie evidence that the prosecutrix was
brought there and permitted to remain for the purposes of prostitution.
Brown v. State, 72 Md. 472 (decided June 19, 1890).

The declarations of the mother of the children claimed to have been ab-
ducted—the mother accompanying the children and the declarations being
made of the time—are admissible in evidence as res gestae. Robinson v.
State, 57 Md. 16.