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846 CHIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27
Funerals—Collection of Tolls from.
1888, art. 27, sec. 121. 1867, ch. 24.
198. No turnpike, bridge or ferry company, and no pro-
prietors of any turnpike or other road, bridge or ferry, shall
collect any tolls upon any carriages or other vehicles or horses
going to or returning from any funeral; every toll gatherer
who shall knowingly collect any tolls contrary to the above
provisions, or who shall knowingly refuse to allow any horse
or vehicle going to or returning from a funeral, to pass with-
out payment of toll, shall forfeit and pay for every such offense
a sum of not less than fifty dollars and not more than one
hundred dollars, one-half to the informer and the other half
to the State; and the company or other parties owning such
road, bridge or ferry shall also be responsible for the same.
Gaming.
Ibid, sec 122. 1860, art 30, sec. 56. 1797, ch. 110. 1826, ch. 88, sec. 1.
1842, ch. 190, sec. 5. 1853, ch. 265, sec. 1. 1856, ch. 195, sec. 1.
199. No person shall keep any gaming table, or any house,
vessel or place, on land or water for the purpose of gambling.
Ibid. sec. 123. 1860, art. 30, sec. 57. 1826, ch. 88, sec. 1.
1842, ch 190, sec. 4.
200. Every faro table, E. O. table, equality, or any other
kind of gaming table (billiard table excepted), at which any
game of chance shall be played for money or any other thing,
shall be deemed a gaming table.
State v. Price, 12 G. & J. 260. Wheeler v. State, 42 Md. 566.
Ibid. sec. 124. 1860, art. 30, sec 58. 1842, ch. 190, sec. 5.
1853, ch. 265, sec. 1. 1856, ch. 195, sec 1.
201. No person shall lease or rent any house, vessel or other
place to be used for gambling.
1890, ch. 206. 1894, ch. 232. 1898, ch. 285, sec. 124 A.
202. 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
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