1102 ARTICLE 27.

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 419 and 420, 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 organ-
ized 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 diligent search for such opium, device, apparatus
or instrument as described in section 420 of this articlej 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 420,
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
420, shall be destroyed by the sheriff.

An. Code, sec. 378. 1904, sec. 345. 1888, sec. 225. 1886, ch. 127, sec. 5.

423. The four preceding sections shall not apply to druggists or physi-
cians, or others engaged in the legitimate use or sale of opium.

Pandering.

An. Code, sec. 379. 1910, ch. 25 (p. 92).

424. Any person who takes, places, harbors, inveighs, entices, per-
suades, encourages, either by threats or promise, or by any device or scheme
takes or places, or causes to be taken or placed, any female into a house
of ill-fame or of assignation or elsewhere, against her will, for the purpose
of prostitution or illegal sexual intercourse, or takes or detains a female
unlawfully against her will, with the intent to compel her by force, threats,
persuasions, menace or duress, to marry him, or to marry any other person,
or to be defiled, or any person who, being parent, guardian or having legal
charge of the charge of a female, consents to her taking or detention by any
person for the purpose of prostitution or illegal sexual intercourse, is guilty
of pandering, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for
a term not less than two nor more than twelve years, and fined not more than
five thousand dollars, in the discretion of the court.
As to adultery, see sec. 5.

An. Code, sec. 380. 1910, ch. 25 (p. 92).

425. Any person who shall place any female in the charge or custody
of any person or persons for immoral purposes, or in a house of prostitution
with the intent that she shall live a life of prostitution, or any person who
shall compel any female to reside with him or with any other person for
immoral purposes, or for the purpose of prostitution, or compel her to live
a life of prostitution, is guilty of pandering, and upon conviction shall be

1 This line is just as it appears in the official copy of the acts of 1910.