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demeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned
not exceeding one year, or both fined and imprisoned in the dis-
cretion of the court; provided, that this section shall not apply
to any person committing the acts thereby prohibited with intent
to prevent violations of this article, or to procure the punish-
ment of offenses against the same.

1894, ch. 271.

220 A. Any person who shall sell, lend, give away or show,
or have in his possession with intent to sell or give away or show,
or shall advertise or otherwise offer for loan, gift or distribution
to any minor, any book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper or other
printed paper devoted to the publication, or principally made up
of criminal news, police reports or accounts of criminal deeds,
or pictures and stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime, or
shall exhibit on any street or highway, or in any other place
within the view of any minor any such book, magazine, pamphlet,
newspaper, writing, paper, picture, drawing, photograph or other
article coming within the description of articles mentioned in
this section, or in the next preceding section shall, in every case,
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by a tine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or shall
be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both fined and im-
prisoned in the discretion of the court; but nothing in this sec-
tion shall apply to or affect any civil or criminal proceeding
actually pending at the date of the passage thereof, to wit, April
6, 1894.

Perjury.

1894, ch. 262

226 A. Any person who shall make oath or affirmation, to two
contradictory statements, each of them in one of the cases enu-
merated in section 226 of this article, and in either case shall
make oath or affirmation wilfully and falsely, shall be deemed
guilty of perjury; and to sustain an indictment under this sec-
tion, it shall be sufficient to allege and prove that one of the said
two contradictory statements is or must be false and wilful, with-
out specifying which one.
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