442 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

shall be deemed a misdemeanor and the offender being convicted thereof
shall be punished by imprisonment in the house of correction for a term
not exceeding two years, or be fined in a sum not exceeding five hun-
dred dollars, or be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the
court; provided, that nothing in this section contained shall be con-
strued to affect or interfere with the law relating to the crime of rape
as now in force in this State; and provided further, that this section
shall not apply to male persons under the age of eighteen years.

Receiving Stolen Goods, Money or Securities.

1904, art. 27, sec. 371. 1888, art. 27, sec. 234. 1860, art. 30, sec. 163. 1809, ch. 138,
sec. 6. 1892, ch. 546. 1902, ch. 18.

423. Every person who shall be convicted of the crime of receiving
any stolen money, goods or chattels, knowing the same to be stolen, or
of the crime of receiving any bond, bill obligatory, bill of exchange,
promissory note for the payment of money, bank note, paper bill of
credit, or certificate granted by or under the authority of this State, or
the United States, or any of them, knowing the same to be stolen, shall
restore such money, goods or chattels or things taken and received to
the owner thereof, or make restitution to the value of the whole or such
part thereof as shall not be restored, and shall be sentenced to undergo
confinement in the penitentiary, or in the house of correction, or in jail,
in the discretion of the court imposing sentence, for not more than ten
years. And such receiver may be prosecuted and punished, although
the principal offender or offenders shall not have been convicted.

Receiving stolen goods is a misdemeanor. The indictment need not aver
that the property was feloniously received or for the purpose of converting
it to the traverser's use, a purpose to assist or aid the thief being sufficient
if the goods are known to have been stolen. The indictment should, how-
ever, charge that the goods were unlawfully received. This section merely
prescribes the punishment for receiving stolen goods and does not change
the nature of the offense. Effect of the words "contra pacem." State v.
Hodges, 55 Md. 138 (decided prior to the act of 1892, ch. 546).

An indictment charging the receipt of "four pieces of printed paper com-
monly called United States 5-20 bonds of the issue of 1865, each of the
value of one thousand dollars current money," is defective in that it does
not charge that, the-pieces of printed paper were bonds or certificates of
indebtedness issued or "granted by or under the authority of the United'
States." The offienses created by this section and section 287 were unknown
to the common law—see notes to section 287. Kearney v. State, 48 Md. 23.
As to larceny, see section 285, et seq.

Religious Meetings.

Ibid. sec. 372. 1888, art. 27, sec. 235. 1860, art. 30, see. 164. 1725, ch. 6.

1747, ch. 17. 1824, ch. 53. secs. 1 and 2. 1839, ch. 32, sec. 1.

1844, ch. 173. 1846, ch. 145.

424. If any person shall erect, place, or have any booth, stall, tent,
carriage, boat, vessel or other vehicle or contrivance whatever, for the
purpose or use of selling, giving or otherwise disposing of any kind of
spirituous or fermented liquors, or any other articles of traffic, or shall
sell, give, barter or otherwise dispose of any spirituous or fermented
liquors, or any other articles of traffic within two miles of any camp-