540 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 180. 1834, ch. 244. 1847, ch. 193.
1866, ch. 66. 1874, ch. 71.

249. It shall not be lawful to keep open or use any dancing
saloon, opera house, ten pin alley, barber saloon or ball alley
within this State on the Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday;
and any person or persons, or body politic or corporate, who shall
violate any provisions of this section, or cause or knowingly
permit the same to be violated by a person or persons in his, her
or its employ, shall be liable to indictment in any court of this
State having criminal jurisdiction, and upon conviction thereof,
shall be fined a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one
hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court, for the first

offence; and if convicted a second time for a violation of this
section, the person or persons, or body politic or corporate shall
be fined a sum not less than one hundred nor more than five
hundred dollars; and if a natural person, shall be imprisoned not
less than ten nor more than thirty days, in the discretion of the

court; and in the case of any conviction or convictions under this
section, subsequent to the second, such person or persons, body
politic or corporate shall be fined on each occasion a sum at least

double that imposed upon him, her, them or it on the last
preceding conviction; and if a natural person, shall be imprisoned
not less than thirty nor more than sixty days, in the discretion of
the court; all fines to be imposed under this section shall be paid
to the State.

State v. Popp, 45 Md. 432.

Sodomy.

P G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 201. 1793, ch. 57, sec. 10. 1809, ch 138, sec. 4.

250. Every person convicted of the crime, of sodomy shall be
sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more
than ten years.

Davis v. State, 3 H. & J. 154.

Telegraphs.

1868, ch. 471, sec. 134.

251. Any person who shall unlawfully and intentionally
injure, molest or destroy any of the lines, posts, piers or abut-
ments, or the materials or property connected with the working
of any telegraph lines, shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed