ART. 27] RELIGIOUS MEETINGS. 443

meeting, or other place of religious worship, during the time of holding
any meeting for religious worship at .such place, such person, on con-
viction before a justice of the peace, for the first offense shall be fined
not less than five nor more than twenty dollars, and stand committed to
jail until the fine and costs are paid; and for the second offense shall be
fined as aforesaid, and be imprisoned not less than ten nor more than
thirty days.

As to "Religious Corporations," see article 23, section 339.

As to indictments for selling liquor, unlawfully, see section 504.

1904, art. 27, sec. 373. 1888, art. 27, sec. 236. 1860, art. 30, sec. 165. 1824, ch. 53,

sec. 2. 1827, ch. 28, sec. 1.

425. If any person shall commit an offense against the provisions
of the preceding section he shall in addition to the penalties therein
mentioned forfeit all such spirituous or fermented liquors and other
articles of traffic, and all the chests and other things containing the
same, belonging to and in the possession of the person so offending,
together with such booth, stall, tent, carriage, boat, vessel, vehicle or
other contrivance or thing prepared and used in violation of said sec-
tion. And it shall be the duty of any sheriff, deputy sheriff or con-
stable, if he sees any person violating the preceding section, to arrest
the offender and carry him before a justice of the peace. The sheriff,
deputy sheriff or constable, when he arrests the offender, shall seize the
property hereby declared to be forfeited, or shall seize the same on a
warrant against the offender, if such offender cannot be found; and the
justice of the peace before whom such offender is convicted, or before
. whom the warrant is returned that the offender cannot be found, shall
enter judgment of condemnation against such property, and issue a
fieri facias for the sale thereof; provided, the person who has been
returned not found and whose property has been condemned in his
absence may appear at any time before the sale of the property and
have the case tried as if he had appeared at the return of the warrant,

Ibid. sec. 374. 1888, art. 27. sec. 237. 1860, art. 30, sec. 166.
1824, ch. 53, sec. 3.

426. The provisions of the two preceding sections shall not apply
to any licensed tavern-keeper, merchant, shop-keeper, farmer or other
person, in the usual and lawful transaction of his ordinary business in
the usual place of transacting such business, or to any person having
permission in writing from the supervisor of such meeting to sell such
articles as may be named in such permission.

Ibid. sec. 375. 1888, art. 27, sec. 238. 1860. art. 30, sec. 167. 1824, ch. 53,
sec. 5. 1827, ch. 29, sec. 2. 1849, ch. 195. 1882, ch. 116.

427. Whosoever shall wilfully interrupt or disturb any religious
congregation, society or meeting, by blowing horns, exploding firearms,
horse-racing, noisy, riotous or disorderly conduct or conversation shall,
on conviction before a justice of the peace in the county wherein such
offense shall be committed, be fined not less than one dollar nor more