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be "For Water and Sewerage Bonds," then the Mayor and Council shall
proceed to execute the power vested in them by this Act, but if a majority
of the votes cast shall be "Against Water and Sewerage Bonds," then this-
Act shall be of no effect, provided, however, that the same question shall
be voted upon in the same manner at any succeeding municipal election
at which the said Mayor and Council of Gaithersburg may in their dis-
cretion submit said question, and when so submitted and favorably passed
upon by the voters as aforesaid, the provisions of this Act shall become
immediately effective.

1922, ch. 216, sec. 20.

405. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent, with the provisions of
this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed to the extent of their incon-
sistency, provided that nothing herein contained shall be taken as affecting
Chapter 810 of the Acts of the Maryland Legislature of 1914, nor as re-
stricting any control which the State Board of Health of Maryland is
empowered to exercise within the corporate limits of the Town of Gaithers-
burg.

GAMING.

1924, ch. 483, sec. 243A.

406. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, or any house,
company, or association or body corporate, to play at any game of chance
for any sum of money or other property of any value in Montgomery
County, which said Act is hereby defined as gaming within the meaning of
this subtitle.

1924, ch. 483, sec. 243B.

407. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, or any house, com-
pany or association, or body corporate, to set up, keep, maintain or con-
duct any gaming table, or any house, vessel or place on land or on water
within the limits of Montgomery County for the purpose of gaming as
defined by Section 406, or to operate any kind of device whatsoever in-
tended for the purpose of gaming as defined in Section 406; and it shall
be unlawful for any person to deal at any gaming table or other place for
gambling in Montgomery County or to manage or be interested financially
in any gaming table, house or establishment maintained for gaming, in
Montgomery County, or in the profits thereof.

1924, ch. 483, sec. 243C.

408. Gambling paraphernalia within the meaning of this subtitle is
hereby defined to include any table, apparatus, device, machine or article
of any kind or description intended to be used for the purpose of gaming
as defined by Section 406 of this subtitle. Money which shall be found on
a table on which gaming is at the time being conducted, shall be gambling
paraphernalia within the meaning of this subtitle. The possession of