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CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 30.

paper notice, advertisement or reference, containing
words or language, giving or conveying any notice,
hint or reference to any person, or to the name of any
person real or fictitious, from whom; or to any place,
house, shop or office, where any poison, drug, mixture,
preparation, medicine or noxious thing, or any instru-
ment or means whatever, for the purpose of producing
abortion; or who shall knowingly sell, or cause to be
sold any such poison, drug, mixture, preparation, medi-
cine or noxious thing or instrument of any kind what-
ever; or where any advice, direction, information or
knowledge may be obtained for the purpose of causing
the miscarriage or abortion of any woman pregnant
with child, at any period of her pregnancy, or shall
knowingly sell or cause to be sold any medicine, or
who shall knowingly use or cause to be used any

Punishment.

means whatsoever for that purpose, shall be punished
by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than
three years, or by a fine of not less than five hundred
nor more than one thousand dollars, or by both, in the
discretion of the court; and in case of fine being im-
posed, one-half thereof shall be paid to the state of
Maryland, and one-half to the school fund of the city

Proviso.

or county where the offence was committed; provided,
however, that nothing herein contained shall be con-
structed so as to prohibit the supervision and manage-

Regular practi-
tioners.

ment by a regular practitioner of medicine of all cases
of abortion occurring spontaneously, either as the re-
sult of accident, constitutional debility, or any other
natural cause, or the production of abortion by a regu-
lar practitioner of medicine when, after consulting with
one or more respectable physicians, he shall be satisfied
that the foetus is dead, or that no other method will
secure the safety of the mother.

Ibid s 3
Duty of judges.

2. It shall be the duty of the judges of the several
circuit courts of this state and of the criminal court of
Baltimore city, to give this act in charge of the grand
jury of their respective courts, at each term of said
courts.

In force and approved March 28, 1868.