178 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

be permitted, shall be specified, and the said court shall not grant
in the aggregate, licenses for more than thirty days in any year,
nor more than fifteen days in any one month in any county of
this State, nor for any days whatsoever, during the months of
December, January, February and March; provided, that the
Circuit Court for Baltimore county may grant licenses for not
exceeding forty days in any one year. For every license so
granted, there shall be paid the clerk of the court granting such
license the sum of five dollars for every day for which such
license shall be granted. The said sum shall go to the Board of
County School Commissioners, in which such court may be
located, for the use of the public schools thereof; provided,
however, that the provisions of sections 124 A—124 E shall not
apply to Cecil, Washington and Anne Arundel counties.

1898, ch. 285.

124 F. Pending criminal proceedings shall not be affected by
the five preceding sections.

Graveyard Desecration.

1898, ch. 178.

135. Any person or persons, his or their aiders or abettors, who
shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or remove any tomb,
monument, gravestone or other structure placed in any cemetery,
or any building, wall, fence, railing or other work, for the use,
protection or ornament of any public or private cemetery in this
State, or shall wilfully destroy, cut, break or remove any tree,
plant or shrub within its limits, or who shall shoot or discharge
any firearms within said limits, or who shall be guilty of indecent
or disorderly conduct within said limits, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of compe-
tent jurisdiction, or before any justice of the peace of this State,
shall be punished by fine not less than five dollars nor more than
five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail, or in
the Maryland House of Correction, for not less than thirty days
nor more than two years, or both such fine and imprisonment in
the discretion of said justice or court, according to the gravity
of the offense. Any justice of the peace in this State, except
civil magistrates in the city of Baltimore, shall have jurisdiction
under this section.