186 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

Lotteries.

1894, ch. 310.

176. If any person shall keep any house, office or other place
for the purpose of selling or bartering any lottery ticket, policy,
certificate or any other thing by which the vendor or other per-
son promises or guarantees that any particular number, charac-
ter, ticket or certificate shall, in any event or on the happening
of any contingency in the nature of a lottery, entitle the pur-
chaser or holder to receive money, property or evidence of debt,
he shall be subject to indictment, and upon conviction, he shall,
in the discretion of the court, be fined a sum not exceeding one
thousand dollars, or imprisoned for a period not exceeding one
year, or he may be both fined and imprisoned.

Bullock v. State, 73 Md. 2. Sanner v. Gisriel, 85 Md. 585.

Ibid.

177. The owner of any house or office who shall permit the
same to be used as a place for selling lottery tickets, or any of
the things in the nature thereof, mentioned in the preceding sec-
tion, shall be liable to indictment, and upon conviction, shall be, in
the discretion of the court, fined a sum not exceeding one thous-
and dollars, or shall be imprisoned for a period not exceeding
one year, or shall be both fined and imprisoned; and any person
who shall know that his house or office is used for such purpose,
shall be considered as permitting the same.

Ibid.

178. If any person shall bring into this State any lottery
ticket, policy, certificate or anything by which the vendor or
other person promises or guarantees that any particular number,
character, ticket or certificate shall in any event, or on the hap-
pening of any contingency in the nature of a lottery, entitle the
purchaser or holder to receive money, property or evidence of
debt, or if any person shall have in his possession in this State,
any book, list, slip or record of the numbers drawn in any lottery,
whether in this State or elsewhere, or any book, list, slip or
record of any lottery ticket, or anything in the nature thereof,
mentioned in this section, or of any money received or to be
received from, or for the sale of any such lottery ticket or thing
in the nature thereof as aforesaid, shall be liable to indictment,