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other device or fraudulent trick whatsoever, on conviction
thereof, shall be imprisoned not less than six months nor more
than two years in the Maryland house of correction or fined
not excceeding one hundred dollars, or both, in the discretion
of the court.

1868, art. 27, sec. 130. 1860, art. 30, sec. 64. 1842, ch. 190, sec. 6.

213. The courts shall construe the preceding sections
relating to gambling and betting liberally, so as to prevent the
mischiefs intended to be provided against.

Ibid. sec. 131. 1860, art. 30, sec. 65. 1853, ch. 265, sec. 8.
1856, ch. 195, sec. 9.

214. No person shall refuse to testify concerning any
gaming or betting because his testimony would implicate him-
self; but when any such person is required to testify in behalf
of the State, he shall not be prosecuted for any offense to
which his testimony relates.
Baker v. State, 2 H & J. 5. Wheeler v. State, 42 Md. 564.

Ibid. sec. 132. 1860, art. 30, sec. 66. 1830, ch. 55, sec. 2. 1842, ch. 190,
sec 11. 1853, ch. 265, sec. 4 1856, ch. 195, sec. 7.

215. All constables and police officers are required to visit
all places where they shall have reason to suspect gaming
tables are kept, and to have prosecuted all persons offending
against the laws prohibiting gambling.

Graveyard Desecration.

Ibid. sec. 133. 1862, ch. 422, sec. 1.

216. Every person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who
shall be convicted of removing or attempting to remove from
any graveyard, burial ground or vault in the State of Maryland
any dead body which shall have been buried in such graveyard,
burial ground or vault, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than five
nor more than fifteen years, unless such person or persons shall
have been authorized by the State's attorney for Baltimore city
or for the county in which such graveyard, burial ground or vault
may be situated to remove such dead body for the purpose of
ascertaining the cause of the death of the person whose body
is so removed, or for the purpose of reburial.

Ibid. sec. 134. 1882, ch. 422, sec. 2.

217. Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed to
apply to the bodies of such persons as shall have been buried,
in Potter's field.