3418 ARTICLE 16.
any person or persons, house, company or association, or body corporate,
committed in violation of this subtitle, but it shall be sufficient for the
purpose of such indictment to allege that the said person or persons, house,
company, association or body corporate engaged in gaming, or engaged in
setting up, maintaining, keeping or conducting a gaming house, or pos-
sessed gambling paraphernalia, as the case may be, in violation of this
subtitle. The Circuit Court of Montgomery County and the Police Justice
of Montgomery County are hereby given concurrent jurisdiction to try
violations of this subtitle.
1924, ch. 483, sec. 243G.
412. Any person or persons, house, company, association or body cor-
porate, upon conviction for violation of any of the provisions of this sub-
title, shall be subject to a fine of not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment
in jail for a period of not more than one year, or both such fine and
imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court.
1924, ch. 483, sec. 2.
413. Any provisions of Sections 244 to 259 of Article 2Y of the Code
of Public General Laws of Maryland, subject "Crimes and Punish-
ments," subtitle "Gaming," inconsistent herewith or contrary hereto, in
so far as said sections are applicable to Montgomery County, are hereby
repealed to the extent of such inconsistency or conflict.*
GARRETT PARK,+
1898, ch. 453, sec. 1. 1912, oh. 790, sec. 244.
414. The citizens of the town of Garrett Park, in Montgomery county,
are hereby created a body corporate by the name and style of Garrett
Park, with all the powers and privileges of a body politic and corporate,
and by said corporate name may have perpetual succession, sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, and may have
and use a common seal.
1898, ch. 453, sec. 2. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 245. 1916, ch. 700.
415. The boundaries of said town shall embrace the several Garrett
Park sub-divisions of the lands of the Metropolitan Investment and Build-
ing Company of Montgomery County, Maryland, in said County, as the
same are described, designated and laid out in the three plats and certifi-
cates thereof, recorded in Liber J. A., No. 4, folio 121; Liber J. A., No.
5, folio 225, and Liber J. A., No. 11, folio 167, respectively, of the Land
Record Books of Montgomery County, Maryland, except that the easterly
boundary shall be as follows: Beginning at a point in the southerly bound-
ary of Section 58 of said town, and distant 220 feet in an easterly direc-
*Sec. 3, ch. 483, 1924, repealed all laws and ordinances inconsistent therewith.
+Ch. 190, 1922, authorized Garrett Park to issue $25,000 of road improvement
bonds, subject to approval of voters.
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