CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1239

Opium Joints.

An. Code, 1924, see. 419. 1912, sec. 374. 1904, sec. 341. 1888, sec. 221. 1886, ch. 127, sec. 1.

497. If any person shall set up or establish, or cause to be set up or
established in any building, house, room, outhouse, tent, booth, arbor, shed,
vessel or other place whatsoever any apparatus or device or instrument
whereby opium may be smoked or used in any manner whatsoever by
other persons; or if any person shall procure, permit, suffer or allow per-
sons to collect and assemble in his house, building, room, outhouse, tent,
booth, arbor, shed or vessel, or other place whatsoever under his control,
for the purpose of smoking opium, or of using opium in any manner; or
if the owner, tenant, lessee or occupant of any house, room, outhouse, tent,
booth, arbor or other place whatever shall lease, hire, rent or permit the
same, or any part thereof, to be used and occupied or employed for the
purpose of smoking opium, or of using opium in any way or manner by
other persons, the persons so offending in either of the enumerated cases
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction be sentenced to pay
a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and undergo imprisonment in
jail not exceeding one year; the owner of such building, house, room, out-
house, tent, booth, arbor, shed, vessel or other place whatsoever, who shall
have received information that any such smoking, or use as aforesaid, is
practised in or upon said premises, and shall not, within ten days thereafter,
cause complaint to be made against the person, or persons who has or have
set up, or established, or permitted the same, shall be deemed and held to
have knowingly leased, hired or rented the premises for the said unlawful
purposes.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 420. 1912, sec. 375. 1904, sec. 342. 1888, sec. 222. 1886, ch. 127, sec. 2.

498. If any person shall keep or exhibit any apparatus, device or
instrument for the smoking of opium, or for using opium in any way or
manner by other persons, or aid or assist or permit others to do the same,
such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be sentenced to imprisonment in jail not exceeding one year, and to
a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 421. 1912, sec. 376. 1904, sec. 343. 1888, sec. 223. 1886, ch. 127, sec. 3.

499. If any person shall, through solicitation, invitation or device,
persuade or prevail on any person to visit any place mentioned in the two
preceding sections, kept for the purpose of smoking opium, or of using
opium in any way or manner, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof be sentenced to pay a fine not exceed-
ing five hundred dollars and undergo imprisonment in jail not exceeding
one year.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 422. 1912, sec. 377. 1904, sec. 344. 1888, sec. 224. 1886, ch. 127, sec. 4.

500. Whenever any officer of police, or any police officer, any sheriff
or deputy sheriff, in the city of Baltimore or other city or town of this State
having a regularly organized police force, or any sheriff, deputy sheriff or
constable in any county shall make oath before any justice of the peace that
he has good reason to believe, or does believe, that any place described in
sections 497 and 498, and within his jurisdiction is used or occupied for
the purposes set forth in said sections, and shall in his oath specifically