176 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

drafts or checks, the draft or bills of exchange, with the docu-
ments for the shipment of the said cargo of grain or other mer-
chandise, and the policies of insurance upon said grain or other
merchandise, as soon as the shipment is completed and bills of
lading delivered therefor, every such offender shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be imprisoned
in the penitentiary not more than ten years nor less than one
year, or be fined not more than five thousand dollars or less than
five hundred, or shall be both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid,
in the discretion of the court.

Gaming.

1890, ch. 206. 1894, ch. 232 1898, ch. 285.

124 A. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, or
association of persons, or for any corporation within the State
of Maryland, to bet, wage or gamble in any manner, or by any
means, or to make or sell a book or pool on the result of any
trotting, pacing or running race of horses or other beasts, or
race, contest or contingency of any kind, or to establish, keep,
rent, use or occupy, or knowingly suffer to be used, kept or
rented or occupied, any house, building, vessel, grounds or place,
or portion of any house, building, vessel, grounds or place, on
land or water, within the State of Maryland, for the purpose of
betting, wagering or gambling in any manner, or by any means,
or making, selling or buying books or pools therein or thereon
upon the result of any race or contest or contingency, or by any
means or devices whatsoever, to receive, become the depository of,
record or register, or forward or purpose, or agree or pretend to
forward, any money, bet, wager, thing or consideration of value,
to be bet, gambled or wagered in any manner, or by any means or
device whatsoever, upon the result of any race, contest or contin-
gency, and any person violating any of the provisions of this
section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not less than two
hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, one-half
of said fine to go to the informer, and shall be subject to
imprisonment in jail for not less than six months nor more
than one year, or be both fined -and imprisoned, in the discretion
of the court.
Stearns v. State, 81 Md. 344. State v. Dycer, 85 Md. 250.