CECIL COUNTY. 1967

GAMING.

1898, ch. 13.

162. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons or association of
persons, or for any corporation or corporations, to bet, wager or gamble, in
any manner or by any means, or make, sell or buy, books or pools, or any
interest therein, within the limits of Cecil County, on the result of any
trotting, pacing or running race of horses or other beasts, or race or contest
of any kind, trotted, run or paced, or held within or without the limits of
Cecil County aforesaid, or to establish, keep, rent, use or occupy, or know-
ingly suffer to be used, kept, rented or occupied, any house, building, vessel,
grounds or place, or portion of any house, building, vessel, grounds or place,
on land or water, within the limits of Cecil County aforesaid, for the pur-
pose of betting, wagering or gambling, in any manner or by any means, or
making, selling or buying books or pools, therein or thereon, upon the result
of any race or contest aforesaid, or within the limits of Cecil County afore-
said, by any means or devices whatsoever, to receive, become the depository,
of record or register or forward, or purport or pretend to forward, any
money, bet, wager, thing or consideration of value, to be bet, gambled or
wagered, in any manner or by any means or devices whatsoever, upon the
result of any race or contest aforesaid, or to aid, assist or abet in any man-
ner or by any means whatsoever, within the limits of Cecil County afore-
said, in any of the acts forbidden by the provisions of this section; any and
every person or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall
be subject to a fine of not less than two hundred dollars and not exceeding
five hundred dollars, one-half thereof to go to the informer, and the other
half thereof to go to the Board of Co'imty School Commissioners of Cecil
County, for the use of the public schools thereof, or imprisonment in the
county jail for a period of not less than six months nor more than one
year, or both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.*

PIGEONS.

1894, ch. 160, sec. 409.

163. No person shall at any time, within the limits of Cecil County,
shoot at or shoot any pigeons or other bird thrown from or escaping from
any trap or other devices for temporary confinement.

1894, ch. 160, sec. 410.

164. Any person, his aider or abettors, who shall violate the provisions
of the preceding section, shall, upon conviction before a justice of the
peace, be fined a sum not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars,
with the costs of prosecution, and shall be committed to the jail of the
county until such fine and costs are paid; for each subsequent offense, in

*Sec. 2, ch. 13, 1898, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.