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An. Code, sec. 314. 1904, sec. 289. 1888, sec. 184. 1860, ch. 388, sec. 11.

348. The courts shall construe the foregoing provisions relating to lot-
teries liberally, and shall adjudge all tickets, parts of tickets, certificates,
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 contingency, in the
nature of a lottery, to be lottery tickets.

This section applied to an Austrian bond—see notes to sec. 336. Ballock v. State,
73 Md. 5. And see Horner v. U. S., 147 U. S. 449.

An. Code, sec. 315. 1904, sec. 290. 1888, sec. 185. 1886, ch. 480, sec. 1.

349. 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
inductment 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 what-
soever.

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 sec. 504, 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 U. S. 449.

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

An. Code, sec. 316. 1904, sec. 291. 1888, sec. 186. 1886, ch. 480, sec. 2.

350. Any person or body corporate violating the provisions of the pre-
ceding section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion thereof before any justice of the peace or court of competent jurisdic-
tion in this State,- shall be fined not less than fifty dollars for any such
offense.

Maiming.

An. Code, sec. 317. 1904, sec. 292. 1888, sec. 187. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 4.

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

An. Code, sec. 318. 1904, sec. 293. 1888, sec. 188. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 4.

352. Every person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who shall be
convicted of the crime of cutting out or disabling the tongue, putting out
an eye, slitting the nose, cutting or biting off the nose, ear or lip, or cutting
or biting off or disabling any limb or member of any person, of malice
aforethought, with intention in so doing to mark or disfigure such person,
shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than
ten years.

An. Code, sec. 319. 1904, sec. 294. 1888, sec. 189. 1853, ch. 99, sec. 1.

353. If any person shall unlawfully shoot at any person, or shall in
any manner unlawfully and maliciously attempt to discharge any kind of