604 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 59. 1829, ch 136. 1842, ch. 190, sec. 1. 1853,
ch 265, sec. 1. 1856, ch. 195, sec. 1. 1880, ch. 149 1882, ch. 271.

125. Any person who shall keep any gaming table or other
place of gambling in this State, or who .shall deal at any such
gaming table or other place for gambling in this State, or who
shall in any way manage such gaming table or other place for
gambling in this State, or who shall have any interest in any
gaming table or the profits thereof, shall be deemed to be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject
to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, one-half to go to
the informer; or imprisonment in jail for a period of not less
than six months nor more than one year.

James v. State, 63 Md. 242. Rice v. State, ibid.

Ibid. sec. 60. Ibid.

126. Any owner, tenant or occupant of any building, house,
vessel or place, who shall knowingly permit any gaming table to
be kept in such building, house, vessel or place, or in any part of
any building, house, vessel or place, owned or occupied by him,
or of which he is tenant, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine
not exceeding five hundred dollars, one-half to go to the in-
former ; or imprisonment in jail for a period of not less than six
months nor more than one year, or both fine and imprisonment,
in the discretion of the court.
Ibid.

Ibid. sec. 61. 1813, ch. 84.

127. Any person who may lose money at a gaming table, may
recover back the same as if it were a common debt, and shall be
a competent witness to prove the sum he lost; but no person
shall recover any money or other thing which he may have won
by betting at any game or by betting in any manner whatsoever.

Gough v. Pratt, 9 Md. 526.

Ibid. sec. 62. 1842, ch. 190, sec. 4. 1853, ch. 265, sec. 2.

128. All games, devices and contrivances at which money or
any other thing shall be bet or wagered, shall be deemed a
gaming table within the meaning of the six preceding sections.

Ibid. sec. 63. 1853, ch. 365, sec. 2.

129. Any person who shall win any money or other thing by
the thimbles, or what is called the little joker, or by any other