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use, or shall design, copy, draw, photograph, print, utter, publish or
prepare such book, picture, card, drawing, paper or other article, or
shall write or print or cause to be written or printed any circular,
advertisement or notice of any kind, or giving information orally, stat-
ing when, where, how or of Whom or by what means such a lewd, inde-
cent or obscene article or thing can be purchased, seen or obtained,
shall in every such case be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convic-
tion thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dol-
lars or shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or be both fined and
imprisoned in the discretion of the court; provided, that this section
shall not apply to any person committing the acts thereby prohibited
with intent to prevent violations of this sub-title or to procure the pun-
ishment of offenses against the same.

1904, art. 27, sec. 340. 1894, ch. 271, sec. 220A.

373. Any person who shall sell, lend, give away or show, or have in
his possession with intent to sell or give away or show, or shall adver-
tise or otherwise offer for loan, gift or distribution to any minor any
book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper or other printed paper devoted
to the publication, or principally made up of criminal news, police
reports or accounts of criminal deeds, or pictures and stories of deeds
of bloodshed, lust or crime, or shall exhibit on any street or highway,
or in any other place within the view of any minor any such book,
magazine, pamphlet, newspaper, writing, paper, picture, drawing, pho-
tograph or other article coming within the description of articles men-
tioned in this section, or in the preceding section shall in every case be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned not
exceeding one year, or be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of
the court.

Opium Joints.

Ibid. sec. 341. 1888, art. 27, sec. 221. 1886, ch. 127, sec. 1.

374. If any person shall set up or establish, or cause to be set up
or established in any building, house, room, outhouse, tent, booth, arbor,
shed, vessel or other place whatsoever any apparatus or device or instru-
ment whereby opium may be smoked or used in any manner whatsoever
by other persons; or if any person shall procure, permit, suffer or allow
persons to collect and assemble in his house, building, room, outhouse,
tent, booth, arbor, shed or vessel, or other place whatsoever under his
control, for the purpose of smoking opium, or of using opium in any
manner; or if the owner, tenant, lessee or occupant of any house, room,
outhouse, tent, booth, arbor or other place whatever shall lease, hire,
rent or permit the same, or any part thereof, to be used and occupied
or employed for the purpose of smoking opium, or of using opium in
any way or manner by other persons, the persons so offending in either
of the enumerated cases shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-
viction be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and