ART. 27.] LOTTERIES. 517

Lotteries.

P. G. L, (1860.) art. 30, sec 107. 1828, ch. 129. 1829, ch 188. 1846, chs. 109,
120. 1847, ch. 284. 1849, ch. 261. 1854, ch. 1S8.

172. No person shall draw any lottery or sell any lottery ticket
in this State; nor shall any person sell what are called policies,
certificates or anything by which the vendor or other person
promises or guarantees that any particular number, character,
ticket or.certificate shall in any event or on the happening of any

contingency, entitle the purchaser or holder to receive money,
property or evidences of debt.
State r. Scribner, 2 G & J 246.

Ibid. sec. 108. 1856, chs. 28, 195.

173. All devices and contrivances designed to evade the pro-
visions of the preceding section shall be deemed offences against
it.

Ibid. sec. 109. 1860, ch. 388, sec. 1.

174. Every person, liis aiders and abettors, offending against
any of the provisions of the two preceding sections, shall be

deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall
be fined for each offence any sum, in the discretion of the court,
not less than two hundred dollars nor exceeding one thousand

dollars, or imprisoned not less than three nor more than twelve
months, or may be both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid.

Ibid, sec 110. 1860, ch. 388,'sec 2.

175. In addition to the penalties prescribed in the preceding
section, any person who shall give money or any other thing for
any lottery ticket, certificate, or any other device, by which the
vendor promises that he or any other person will pay or deliver
to the purchaser any money, property or evidence of debt, on
the happening of any contingency in the nature of a lottery,

such person so giving may recover, as small debts are recoverable,
from the person to whom he gave the same, or his aiders or
abettors, the sum of fifty dollars for every lottery ticket, certifi-
cate or other device iu the nature thereof so purchased or ob-
tained by him.