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CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, ETC. [ART. 72.
RELIGIOUS MEETINGS.

Art 30, s 164
1725, c 6 , 1747,
c 17 1824, c S3,
ss 1,2, 1839, c
32, s 1 , 1844, c
173 , 1846, c 145
Erecting booths,
etc , for sale of
spirituous
liquors, etc,
near religious
meeting, or
selling near
same.

119. If any person shall erect, place, or have any booth, stall,
tent, carriage, boat, vessel, or other vehicle or contrivance what-
ever, for the purpose or use of selling, giving, or otherwise dis-
posing of any kind of spirituous or fermented liquors, or any other
articles of traffic; or shall sell, give, barter, or otherwise dispose of
any spirituous or fermented liquors, or any other articles of traffic,
within two miles of any camp meeting, or other place of religious
worship, during the time of holding any meeting for religious wor-
ship at such place, such person, on conviction before a justice of the
peace, for the first offence shall be fined not less than five nor more
than twenty dollars, and stand committed to jail until the fine and

Punishment.

costs are paid; and for the second offence shall be fined as afore-
said, and be imprisoned not less than ten nor more than thirty days.

Id s 165
1824, c 53, s 2 ,
1827, c 29, s 1
Goods forfeited

120. If any person shall commit an offence against the provisions
of the preceding section he shall, in addition to the penalties therein
mentioned, forfeit all such spirituous or fermented liquors and other
articles of traffic, and all the chests and other things containing the
same, belonging to and in the possession of the person so offending,
together with such booth, stall, tent, carriage, boat, vessel, vehicle,
or other contrivance or thing prepared and used in violation of said

Sheriff to arrest
offenders and
seize goods.

section. And it shall be the duty of any sheriff, deputy sheriff, or
constable, if he sees any person violating the preceding section, to
arrest the offender and carry him before a justice of the peace The
sheriff, deputy sheriff, or constable, when he arrests the offender,
shall seize the property hereby declared to be forfeited, or shall seize
the same on a warrant against the offender, if such offender cannot
be found; and the justice of the peace before whom such offender
is convicted, or before whom the warrant is returned that the of-

Justice to con-
demn property

fender cannot be found, shall enter judgment of condemnation against
such property, and issue a fieri facias for the sale thereof; provided,
the person who has been returned not found, and whose property
has been condemned in his absence, may appear at any time before
the sale of the property and have the case tried, as if he had ap-
peared at the return of the warrant.

Id s 166
1824, c 53,s 3
Who exempt.

121. The provisions of the two preceding sections shall not
apply to any licensed tavern-keeper, merchant, shop-keeper, farmer,
or other person, in the usual and lawful transaction of his ordinary
business, in the usual place of transacting such business, or to any
person having permission in writing from the supervisor of such
meeting, to sell such articles as may be named in such permission.

Id s 167
1824, c 53, s 5 ,
1827, c 29, s 2 ,
1849, c 195
Disturbing con-
gregation

122. If any person shall disturb any congregation, society, or
meeting assembled for the purpose of religious worship, by blowing
horns or trumpets, firing guns, or by any riotous or disorderly con-
versation, or by any other means, with intent to interrupt or disturb
the worship, devotion, or exercises of such congregation, society,
or meeting, or of any of the persons attending such meeting, he, on