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1904, art. 27, sec. 288. 1888, art. 27, sec. 183. 1860, art. 30, sec. 118.
1860, ch. 388, sec. 10.

313. The preceding sections relating to lotteries shall apply to all
lotteries, whether authorized by any other State, district or territory
or by any foreign country; and the prohibition of sale of any lottery
ticket or other device in the nature thereof shall apply to lotteries drawn
out of this State, as well as those drawn within it.
See notes to section 302.

Ibid. sec. 289. 1888, art. 27, sec. 184. 1860, art. 30, sec. 119.
1860, ch. 388, sec. 11.

314. The courts shall construe the foregoing provisions relating to
lotteries liberally, and shall adjudge all tickets, parts of tickets, cer-
tificates, or any other device whatsoever, by which money or any other
thing is to be paid or delivered on the happening of any event or con-
tingency, in the nature of a lottery, to be lottery tickets.

This section applied to an Austrian bond—see notes to section 302. Bal-
lock v. State, 73 Md. 5. And see Horner v. U. S., 147 U. S. 449.

Ibid. sec. 290. 1888, art. 27, sec. 185. 1886, ch. 480, see. 1.

315. No person or body corporate shall be permitted, either directly
or indirectly, by agent or otherwise, to barter, sell or trade, or to offer
for barter, sale or trade, by any publication, or in any way, any wares,
goods or merchandise of any description, in package or bulk, holding
out as an inducement for any such barter, sale or trade, or the offer
of the same, any scheme or device by way of gift enterprise of any
kind or character whatsoever.

This section in so far as it prohibits gifts not involving the element of
chance to a purchaser of goods as an inducement to make the purchases,
is unconstitutional and void. This section referred to in construing section.
456, et seq.—see notes thereto. State v. Caspare, 115 Md. 16; Long v.
State, 74 Md. 565; State v. Hawkins, 95 Md. 143. And see Horner v. U. S.
147 TJ. S. 449.

A scheme held to be a "gift enterprise" within the meaning of this sec-
tion ; evidence held admissible. Long v. State, 73 Md. 528.

Ibid. sec. 291. 1888, art. 27, sec. 186. 1886, ch. 480, sec. 2.

316. Any person or body corporate violating the provisions of the
preceding section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof before any justice of the peace or court of compe-
tent jurisdiction in this State, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars
for any such offense.

Maiming.

Ibid. sec. 292. 1888, art. 27, sec. 187. 1860, art. 30, sec. 120.
1809, ch. 138, sec. 4.

317. Every person, his aiders and abettors, who shall be convicted
of the crime of mayhem, or of tarring and feathering, shall be sen-
tenced to the penitentiary for not more than ten years nor less than;
eighteen months.