ART. 27.] OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS. 529

in the court having criminal jurisdiction, either in the city or
county where such child was begot, or where the same was born,
shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than eighteen
months nor more than five years.
Hemming v. Elliott, 66 Md. 200.

Obscene Publications.

P. G L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 78. 1853, ch 183.

219. Whenever any newspaper, or other periodical publica-
tion, printed, issued or published in this State, shall contain any
obscene or licentious matter, whether the same be contained in
any professional or other advertisements, or in any other article,
whether original, communicated or copied from any other publi-
cation, every proprietor and publisher shall be held to be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished
by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than two hundred
dollars, and imprisoned for not less than ten days nor more than
one year, in the discretion of the court in which the conviction
shall be had. And each successive number of any newspaper or
periodical, containing any such obscene or licentious matter, shall
be deemed a new publication thereof, and shall subject every
proprietor and publisher to indictment and punishment as for a
distinct offence.

Nicholson v. State, 36 Md. xi.

1886, ch. 490.

220. Any person who shall design, draw, paint, print, litho-
graph, stamp, engrave, carve, or in any way make, manufacture
or produce, or cause to be designed, drawn, painted, printed,
lithographed, stamped, engraved, carved or in any way made,
manufactured or produced, any obscene book, pamphlet, paper-
writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing or other
representation, figure or image, on or of paper or other material,
of an indecent or immoral nature, or shall sell, give away, dis-
tribute, post up, or in any way exhibit to the public or to any
individual, or cause, direct or permit to be sold, given away, dis-
tributed, posted up, or in any way exhibited to the pubh'c or to
any individual, any such obscene book, pamphlet, paper-writing,
advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing or other represen-
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