ART. 27.] RELIGIOUS MEETINGS. 535

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec 165. 1824, ch. 53, sec. 2 1827, ch. 29, sec. 1.

236. If any person shall commit an offence against the pro-
visions of the preceding section, he shall, in addition to the
penalties therein mentioned, forfeit all such spirituous or fer-
mented liquors and other articles of traffic, and all the chests
and other things containing the same, belonging to and in the
possession of the person so offending, together with such booth,
stall, tent, carriage, boat, vessel, vehicle or other contrivance or
thing prepared and used in violation of said section. And it
shall be the duty of any sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable, if he
sees any person violating the preceding section, to arrest the
offender and carry him before a justice of the peace. The sheriff,
deputy sheriff or constable, when he arrests the offender, shall
seize the property hereby declared to be forfeited, or shall seize
the same on a warrant against the offender, if such offender can-
not be found; and the justice of the peace before whom such
offender is convicted, or before whom the warrant is returned
that the offender cannot be found, shall enter judgment of con-
demnation against such property, and issue & fieri facias for the
sale thereof; provided, the person who has been returned not
found, and whose property has been condemned in his absence,
may appear at any time before the sale of the property and have
the case tried as if he had appeared at the return of the warrant.

Ibid. sec. 166. 1824, ch. 53, sec. 3.

237. The provisions of the two preceding sections shall not
apply to any licensed tavern-keeper, merchant, shop-keeper,
farmer or other person, in the usual and lawful transaction of his
ordinary business in the usual place of transacting such business,
or to any person having permission in writing from the super-
visor of such meeting, to sell such articles as may be named ill
such permission.

Ibid, sec 167. 1824, ch. 53, sec. 5. 1827, ch. 29, sec. 2. 1849, ch. 195.
1882, ch 116.

238. Whosoever shall wilfully interrupt or disturb any relig-
ious congregation, society or meeting, or person attending such
congregation, society or meeting, by blowing horns, exploding
firearms, horse-racing, noisy, riotous or disorderly conduct or con-