534 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

ment in the penitentiary for not less than eighteen mouths nor
more than twenty-one years.

Receiving Stolen Godds, Money or Securities.

F. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 163. 1609, ch. 138, sec. 6.

234. Every person who shall be convicted of the crime of
receiving any stolen money, goods or chattels, knowing the same
to be stolen, or of the crime of receiving any bond, bill obligatory
or bill of exchange, promissory note for the payment of money,
bank note, paper bill of credit, certificate granted by or under the
authority of this State, or of the United States, or any of them,
knowing the same to be stolen, shall restore such money, goods or
chattels, or thing taken and received, to the owner thereof, or
make restitution to the value of the whole, or such part as shall
not be restored, and shall undergo a confinement in the peniten-
tiary for not less than eighteen months nor more than ten years;
and such receiver may be prosecuted and punished, although the
principal offenders shall not have been convicted.

Isaacs v. State, 23 Md. 410. Kearney v. State, 48 Md. 16. State v. Hodges
45 Md. 136.

Religious Meetings.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 164. 1725, ch. 6. 1747, ch. 17. 1834, ch. 58, secs.
1-2. 1839, ch. 32, sec. 1. 1844, ch. 173. 1848, ch. 145.

235. If any person shall erect, place or have any booth, stall,
tent, carriage, boat, vessel or other vehicle or contrivance what-
ever, for the purpose or use of selling, giving or otherwise dispos-
ing of any kind of spirituous or fermented liquors, or any other
articles of traffic, or shall sell, give, barter or otherwise dispose
of any spirituous or fermented liquors, or any other articles of
traffic within two miles of any camp-meeting, or other place of
religious worship, during the time of holding any meeting for
religions worship at such place, such person, on conviction before
a justice of the peace, for the first offence shall be fined not less
than five nor more than twenty dollars, and stand committed to
jail until the fine and costs are paid; and for the second offence
shall be fined as aforesaid, and be imprisoned not less than ten
nor more than thirty days.