530 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

tation, figure or image, on or of paper or other material, of an
indecent or immoral nature, as an advertisement of or accompany-
ing the advertisement of any theatrical performance or other
public entertainment or amusement, or as an advertisement of or
accompanying the advertisement, box, wrapper, case or other
cover of any article of merchandise or otherwise, shall be deemed
to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more
than two hundred dollars, and imprisonment for not less than ten
days nor more than one year, in the discretion of the court in
which the conviction shall be had.

Opium Joints.

1886, ch. 127, sec. 1.

221. If any person shall set up or establish, or cause to be set
up or established in any building, house, room, out-house, tent,
booth, arbor, shed, vessel or other place whatsoever, any appa-
ratus or device, or instrument, whereby opium may be smoked or
used in any manner whatsoever by other persons; or if any person-
shall procure, permit, suffer or allow persons to collect and
assemble in his house, building, room, out-house, tent, booth,
arbor, shed or vessel, or other place whatsoever under his control,
for the purpose of smoking opium, or of using opium in any
manner; or if the owner, tenant, lessee or occupant of any house,
room, out-house, tent, booth, arbor or other place whatever, shall
lease, hire, rent or permit the same, or any part thereof, to be
used and occupied or employed for, the purpose of smoking
opium, or of using opium in any way or manner by other per-
sons, the persons so offending in either of the enumerated cases
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction be sentenced
to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and undergo
imprisonment in jail not exceeding one year; the owner of such
building, house, room, out-house, tent, booth, arbor, shed, vessel
or other place whatsoever, who shall have received information
that any such smoking, or use as aforesaid, is practised in or upon
said premises, and shall not, within ten days thereafter, cause
complaint to be made against the person or persons who has or
have set up or established, or permitted the same, shall be deemed