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(f) To reside in, enter in any place, structure or building, or to remain,
in any conveyance, for the purpose of prostitution, lewdness or assignation;

(g) To engage in prostitution, lewdness or assignation by any means
whatsoever.

This section referred to in upholding an indictment for perjury. Shaffer v. State,
87 Md. 127.

1920, ch. 737, see. 19A.

21. The term " prostitution " shall be construed to mean the offering
or receiving of the body for sexual intercourse for hire. The term " lewd-
ness " shall be construed to mean any unnatural sexual practice. The term
" assignation " shall be construed to include the making of any appoint-
ment, or engagement for prostitution or lewdness or any act in furtherance
of such appointment or engagement.

1920, ch. 737, sec.,19B.

22. Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of Section
20 shall be subject to a fine of not more than $500.00 or to confinement in
or commitment to any penal or reformatory institution in this State for
not more than one year, or to both such fine and imprisonment in the dis-
cretion of the court; provided, that the sentence or any part thereof may
be suspended and provided that the defendant may be placed on parole
or probation; provided further, that no girl or woman who shall be con-
victed under this Act shall be placed on parole or probation in the care or
charge of any person, except a woman probation officer designated by
law or by the court.1

Bigamy.

An. Code, sec. 20. 1904, sec. 19. 1888, sec. 17. 1706, ch. 8. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 7.

23. Whosoever being married shall, the first husband or wife (as the
case may be) being alive, marry any person, shall undergo a confinement
in the penitentiary for a period not less than eighteen months nor more than
nine years; provided, that nothing herein contained shall extend to any
person whose husband or wife shall be contimiously remaining beyond the
seas seven years together, or shall be absent himself or herself seven years
together, in any part within the United States or elsewhere, the one of them
not knowing the other to be living at that time; and if such offender be a
man, his first wife shall, on his conviction, be forthwith endowed of one-
third part of his real estate, which she shall hold as tenant in dower, the
assignment of which shall be made as prescribed by law in other cases of
dower, and she shall have the like remedy for the recovery thereof; and
she shall also, on his conviction, be forthwith entitled to one-third part of
his personal estate, in the same manner as if such husband had died intes-
tate, and she had survived him, which third part shall be divided and
allotted to her in the same manner as distribution is made of the personal
estate of intestates; and if the said offender be a man, he shall, on convic-

1 Sec. 2 of ch. 737 of act, 1920, repealed all laws and parts of laws in conflict with said act.