ART. 27] GAMING——HORSE RACING. 847

place, on land or water, within the State of Maryland, for
the purpose of betting, wagering or gambling in any manner,
or by any means, or making, selling or buying books or pools
therein or thereon upon the result of any race or contest or
contingency, or by any means or devices whatsoever, to receive,
become the depository of, record or register, or forward or pur-
pose, or agree or pretend to forward any money, bet, wager,
thing or consideration of value, to be bet, gambled or wagered
in any manner, or by any means or device whatsoever, upon
the result of any race, contest or contingency, and any person
violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
subject to a fine of not less than two hundred dollars nor more
than one thousand dollars, one-half of said fine to go to the
informer, and shall be subject to imprisonment in jail for not
less than six months nor more than one year, or be both
fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court.
Stearns v State, 81 Md. 344 State v. Dycer, 85 Md. 250.

1898, ch. 285, sec. 124s.

203. Nothing in the next preceding section shall render it
unlawful in any county of this State, other than Baltimore
city, for any person or persons to make a pool or a book, or to
bet within the ground of any agricultural association, race
course or driving park, upon the result of any trotting, pacing
or running race of horses which shall be held within the same
grounds, race course or driving park upon which said person
shall so make a pool or book, or shall so bet upon the same
day on which said race shall be held; provided, the grounds
of such agricultural association, race course or driving park be
licensed in the manner set forth in the next succeeding section
by the circuit court for the county within which such grounds
or track may be located.

Ibid, sec 124 C.

204. Every person applying for a license as required by the
next preceding section shall file with the circuit court for the
county within which the grounds of such agricultural associa-
tion, race course or driving park may be located, his petition
for such a license, and before granting the said license the said
court shall cause notification of said petition to be published,
at the cost of the applicant, at least once a week for three
successive weeks, in a newspaper published in the county in
which the grounds aforesaid may be located.