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penitentiary not less than two nor more than five years; and any
recovery of a penalty for violating any of the provisions of this
article relating to lotteries, whether by indictment or action of
debt, or before a justice of the peace, shall be regarded as a first
conviction under this section.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 118. 1860, ch. 388, sec. 10.

183. The preceding sections relating to lotteries shall apply
to all lotteries, whether authorized by any other State, district or
territory, or by any foreign country; and the prohibition of sale
of any lottery ticket or other device in the nature thereof, shall
apply to lotteries drawn out of this State, as well as those drawn
within it.

Ibid. sec. 119. 1860, ch 388, sec. 11.

184. The courts shall construe the foregoing provisions re-
lating to lotteries liberally, and shall adjudge all tickets, parts of
tickets, certificates, or any other device whatsoever, by which
money or any other thing is to be paid or delivered on the hap-
pening of any event or contingency, in the nature of a lottery, to
be lottery tickets.

1886, ch. 480, sec. 1.

185. No person or body corporate shall be permitted, either
directly or indirectly, by agent or otherwise, to barter, sell or
trade, or to offer for barter, sale or trade, by any publication, or
in any way, any wares, goods or merchandise of any description,
in package or bulk, holding out as an inducement for any such
barter, sale or trade, or the offer of the same, any scheme or de-
vice by way of gift enterprises of any kind or character whatso-
ever.

Ibid. sec. 2.

186. Any person or body corporate violating the provisions of
the preceding section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace or
court of competent jurisdiction in this State, shall be fined not
less than fifty dollars for any such offence.