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undergo imprisonment in jail not exceeding one year; the owner of such
building, house, room, outhouse, tent, booth, arbor, shed, vessel or other
place whatsoever, who shall have received information that any such
smoking, or use as aforesaid, is practised in or upon said premises, and
shall not, within ten days thereafter, cause complaint to be made against
the person or persons who has or have set up or established, or per-
mitted the same, shall be deemed and held to have knowingly leased,
hired or rented the premises for the said unlawful purposes.

1904, art. 27, sec. 342. 1888, art. 27, sec. 222. 1886, ch. 127, sec. 2.

375. If any person shall keep or exhibit any apparatus, device or
instrument for the smoking of opium, or for using opium in any way
or manner by other persons, or aid or assist or permit others to do the
same, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion thereof shall be sentenced to imprisonment in jail not exceeding
one year, and to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Ibid. sec. 343. 1888, art. 27, sec. 223. 1886, ch. 127, sec. 3.

376. If any person shall, through solicitation, invitation or device,
persuade or prevail on any person to visit any place mentioned in the
two preceding sections, kept for the purpose of smoking opium, or of
using opium in any way or manner, such person shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be sentenced to pay a
fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and undergo imprisonment in
jail not exceeding one year.

Ibid. sec. 344. 1888, art. 27, see. 224. 1886, ch. 127, sec. 4.

377. Whenever any officer of police, or any police officer, any -sheriff
or deputy sheriff, in the city of Baltimore or other city or town of this
State having a regularly organized police force, or any sheriff, deputy
sheriff or constable in any county shall make oath before any justice of
the peace that he has good reason to believe, or does believe, that any
place described in sections 374: and 375, and within his jurisdiction is
used or occupied for the purposes set forth in said sections, and shall in
his oath specifically designate such place, the justice of the peace shall
issue his search warrant to any officer of police, or police officer, sheriff
or deputy sheriff in the city of Baltimore, or other city or town in this
State having a regularly organized police force, or sheriff or deputy
sheriff or constable in any county, commanding him to make entrance
into the place specifically mentioned in said oath, and there make dili-
gent search for such opium, device, apparatus or instrument as described
in section 375 of this article; and if found the officer shall seize the
same and deliver the same to the sheriff, who shall retain such apparatus,
device or instrument, as described in section 375, until the trial of the
person or persons accused of such misdemeanor; and after said trial,
said apparatus, device or instrument, as described in section 375, shall
be destroyed by the sheriff.