518 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec 111. 1860, ch. 388, sec. 3.

176. If any person shall keep any house, office or other place
for the purpose of selling or bartering any lottery ticket, policy,
certificate or any other thing 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 in the nature of a lottery, entitle the purchaser
or holder to receive money, property or evidence of debt, he
shall be subject to a penalty of one thousand dollars for each,
offence, to be recovered either by indictment or by action of debt
in the name of the State, one-half of which shall go to the
informer and the other half shall be for the use of the common
schools in the counties and the city of Baltimore, respectively.

Ibid. sec. 112. 1860, ch. 388, sec. 4.

177. The owner of any house or office who shall permit the
same to be used as a place for selling lottery tickets, or any of
the things in the nature thereof mentioned in the preceding;
section, shall be subject to a penalty of one thousand dollars,
to be recovered and disposed of as mentioned in the preceding-
section ; and any person who shall know that his house or office is
used for such purpose shall be considered as permitting the same.

Ibid. sec. 113. 1860, ch. 388, sec. 5.

178. If any person shall bring into this State any lottery
ticket, pollcy, certificate, 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 in the nature of a lottery, entitle
the purchaser or holder to receive money, property or evidence
of debt, for the purpose of sale or disposing of the same in any
other manner, he shall be subject to a penalty of one thousand
dollars, to be recovered by action of debt or indictment, in the?
name of the State; one-half to the informer and the other half
shall be for the use of the common schools in the counties and
city of Baltimore, respectively.

Ibid. sec. 114. 1860, ch. 388, sec. 6.

179. If any person shall, by printing, writing, or in any other
way, publish an account of any lottery, stating when or where