808 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

Drunkenness and Disorderly Conduct.

1888, art. 27, sec. 68. 1860, art. 30, sec. 42 1892, ch. 672. 1902, ch. 215.

1904, ch. 118.

96. Every person who shall be found drunk, or acting in a
disorderly manner, to the disturbance of the public peace, upon
any public street or highway, in any city, town or county in
this State, or at any place of public worship or public resort
or amusement in any city, town or county of this State, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be subject to a fine of not less than one dollar
and not more than twenty-five dollars and costs of prosecution;
and when said fine and costs are not paid, the party so con-
victed shall be committed to the county jail for a term not
exceeding thirty days or until discharged in due course of law.
The justice of the peace for the respective counties of this
State shall have concurrent jurisdiction over such offense with
the circuit court for their respective counties; and justices of
the peace selected to sit at the respective station houses in the
city of Baltimore shall have concurrent jurisdiction over such
offense with the criminal court of Baltimore city. This sec-
tion not to apply to Frederick county; provided, that nothing
herein contained shall be construed to affect any prosecution
for violation of the existing laws of this State or for offenses
against the same committed before March 18, 1904.

1890, ch. 523, sec. 68A.

96. Any person who shall keep a disorderly house shall on.
conviction thereof be subject to a fine of not less than fifty
dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, or to imprison-
ment in jail for not less than ten days nor more than six
months, or to both fine and imprisonment.

Beard v. State, 74 Md. 131.

Duelling.

1888, art. 27, sec 69. 1860, art. 30, sec. 43. 1816, ch. 219, sec. 1.
97- Any person who shall wilfully and maliciously, or by
previous agreement, fight a duel or single combat with any
engine, instrument or weapon, the probable consequence of
which may be the death of either party, and in doing so shall
kill his antagonist or any other person, or inflict such wound
as that the person injured shall die thereof within twelve
months and a day thereafter, such offender, his aiders, abettors
and counsellors, being thereof convicted, shall be sentenced to