ART. 27.] OPIUM JOINTS. 531

and held to have knowingly leased, hired or rented the premises
for the said unlawful purposes.

1886, ch. 127, sec. 2.

222. If any person shall keep or exhibit any apparatus, device
or instrument for the smoking of opium, or for using opium in
any way or manner by other persons, or aid or assist, or permit
others to do the same, such person shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to
imprisonment in jail not exceeding one year, and to a fine
not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Ibid sec. 3.

223. If any person shall, through solicitation, invitation or
device, persuade or prevail on any person to visit any place
mentioned in the two preceding sections, kept for the purpose of
smoking opium, or of using opium in any way or manner, such
person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars, and undergo imprisonment in jail not exceeding
one year.

Ibid. sec. 4.

224. Whenever any officer of police, or any police officer, any
sheriff or deputy sheriff, in the city of Baltimore, or other city or
town of this State having a regularly organized pollce force, or
any sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable in any county, shall make
oath before any justice of the peace that he has good reason to
believe, or does believe, that any place described in sections 221
and 222, and within his jurisdiction, is used or occupied for the
purposes set forth in said sections, and shall in his oath specific-
ally designate such place, the justice of the peace shall issue his
search warrant to any officer of pollce, or pollce officer, sheriff or
deputy sheriff in the city of Baltimore, or other city or town in
this State having a regularly organized police force, or sheriff or
deputy sheriff or constable in any county, commanding him to
make entrance into the place specifically mentioned in said oath,
and there make diligent search for such opium, device, apparatus
or instrument as described in section 222 of this article; and if
found, the officer shall seize the same and deliver the same to the