434 ARTICLE 2.

It shall be the duty of said crier of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
County at all times to keep and have charge of the courtroom, judge's
room and petit jury room of said court, and to clean, air and ventilate
the same, to attend the sessions of said court, to have charge and keep
open the court library for the use and benefit of persons having business
with said court, allowing no books to be taken out of said courtroom, un-
less the party desiring to remove the same first receipt for them in a book
to be kept by said crier; and allow no books to be taken from the library,
except by the judges of said court, for a longer period than ten days, and
for the faithful discharge of his duties he shall give bond to the State of
Maryland in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, to be filed with and
approved by the clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County.

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

P. LL L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 128. 1914 Code, sec. 188.

253. Whoever shall unnecessarily overdrive, overwork, overload, tor-
ture, torment, deprive of necessary substenance, cruelly or unnecessarily
beat, cruelly mutilate or cruelly kill, or cause or procure to be so unneces-
sarily beaten, mutilated or killed, any horse, ox or other animal, shall be
punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dol-
lars, to be recovered on complaint of any person before any justice of
the peace, or any court of competent jurisdiction in said county.

P. L,. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 129. 1914 Code, sec. 189.

254. Every owner, driver, or possessor, or person having charge or
custody of a maimed, disabled or diseased horse, mule or other animal,
who shall cruelly work the same when unfit for work, or cruelly abandon
the same, shall be punished in the same manner as provided in the pre-
ceding section.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 130. 1914 Code, sec. 190.

255. Any person who shall keep or use any bull, bear or dog for the
purpose of fighting or baiting the same, or as a target to be shot at, either
for amusement or as a test of skill in markmanship, or who shall be a
party to or be present as a spectator at any such fighting, baiting or shoot-
ing of any bear, bull or dog, or any person who shall rent any room, shed,
hall, ground or premises for the purpose of fighting, baiting or shooting
any animal aforesaid, shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars
nor more than fifty dollars, or be imprisoned in the jail of Anne Arundel
County for not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or be both
fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court, before whom such
person may be tried and convicted.