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two hundred dollars, one-half to the informer and the other half to
the State.

Liquor Dealers—Giving Away of Food by.

1908, ch. 597.

301. Any person engaged in the sale or barter of spirituous, malt
or intoxicating liquors, and licensed under the laws of Maryland, to

engage in such sale or barter, who shall directly or indirectly give or
offer to anyone visiting the premises of such licensed person, where

spirituous, malt or intoxicating liquors of any kind are sold or bar-
tered, or offered for sale or barter, any viands, food or lunch of any

character, except as hereinafter provided, for the purpose of inducing,
procuring or influencing the person to whom the same may be offered,
to purchase in any quantity, spirituous, malt or intoxicating liquor
to be drunk on the premises of such licensed person, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punishable by a
line of not more than ten dollars for each offense; provided, however,
that this section shall not operate to prohibit the placing on the coun-
ters of such licensed person, pretzels, .cheese or crackers for the use,
nvithout cost thereto, of the patrons of such licensed person; and pro-
vided further, that the placing by such licensed person of any viands,

food or lunch, other than that hereinbefore excepted at any place on his
premises for the free use of his patrons, shall be prima facie a violation

of this section.

As to liquor dealers, see article 56, section 60, et seq.

Lotteries.

1904, art. 27, sec. 277. 1888, art. 27, sec. 172. 1860, art. 30, sec. 107. 1828. ch. 129.

1829, ch. 188. 1846, chs. 109, 120. 1847, ch. 284.

1849, ch. 261. 1854, ch. 138.

302. 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 anything by which the vendor or other person promises or guaran-
tees that any particular number, character, ticket or certificate shall
in any event or on the happening of any contingency entitle the pur-
chaser or holder to receive money, property or evidences of debt.

A lottery defined, and an Austrian bond held to be a lottery ticket within
the meaning of this and the following sections; the prohibition of the sale
of such bonds does not violate treaty stipulations or constitutional provi-
sions. Ballock v. State, 73 Md. 2. And see Horner v. U. S., 147 U. S. 449.
For a definition of a lottery, see Long v. State, 74 Md. 568.

Where there are separate proceedings against several parties for a vio-
lation of the lottery law, a joint bill of discovery cannot be filed against
them. Where parties are being prosecuted under one section of the lottery
law, they cannot, be compelled to answer interrogatories which bear upon
another section. Power of lottery commissioner to file a bill of discovery
upheld. The acts of 1846, ch. 109, 1847, ch. 284, and 1854. ch. 138, con-
strued. Broadbent v. State, 7 Md. 425. And as to the validity of the por-
tion of the act of 1847, ch. 284. directing an answer under oath, etc., see
Day v. State, 7 Gill, 321.