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designate such place, the justice of the peace shall issue his search warrant
to any officer of police, or police officer, sheriff or deputy sheriff in the city
of Baltimore, or other city or town in this State having a regularly organ-
ized police force, or sheriff or deputy sheriff or constable in any county,
commanding him to make entrance into the place specifically mentioned in
said oath, and there make diligent search for such opium, device, apparatus
or instrument as described in section 498 of this article; and if found the
officer shall seize the same and deliver the same to the sheriff, who shall
retain such apparatus, device or instrument, as described in section 498,
until the trial of the person or persons accused of such misdemeanor; and
after said trial, said apparatus, device or instrument, as described in section
498, shall be destroyed by the sheriff.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 423. 1912, sec. 378. 1904, sec. 345. 1888, sec. 225. 1886, ch. 127, sec. 5.

501. The four preceding sections shall not apply to druggists or physi-
cians, or others engaged in the legitimate use or sale of opium.

Pandering.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 424. 1912, sec. 379. 1910, ch. 25 (p. 92).

502. Any person who takes, places, harbors, inveighs, entices, per-
suades, encourages, either by threats or promise, or by any device or scheme
takes or places, or causes to be taken or placed, any female into a house
of ill-fame or of assignation or elsewhere, against her will, for the purpose
of prostitution or illegal sexual intercourse, or takes or detains a female
unlawfully against her will, with the intent to compel her by force, threats,
persuasions, menace or duress, to marry him, or to marry any other person,
or to be defiled, or any person who, being parent, guardian or having legal
charge of the charge of a female,¹ consents to her taking or detention by any
person for the purpose of prostitution or illegal sexual intercourse, is guilty
of pandering, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for
a term not less than two nor more than twelve years, and fined not more than
five thousand dollars, in the discretion of the court.

As to adultery, see sec. 5.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 425. 1912, sec. 380. 1910, ch. 25 (p. 92).

503. Any person who shall place any female in the charge or custody
of any person or persons for immoral purposes, or in a house of prostitution
with the intent that she shall live a life of prostitution, or any person who
shall compel any female to reside with him or with any other person for
immoral purposes, or for the purpose of prostitution, or compel her to live
a life of prostitution, is guilty of pandering, and upon conviction shall be
punished by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars and imprisoned not
less than one or more than ten years.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 426. 1912, sec. 381. 1910, ch. 25 (p. 92).

504. Any person who shall receive any money or other valuable thing
for or on account of procuring for or placing in a house of prostitution or
elsewhere, any female for the purpose of causing her to cohabit with any
male person or persons, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction
thereof shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than three nor
more than ten years.

¹ This line is just as it appears in the official copy of the acts of 1910.