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ART. 27] LOTTERIES——MAIMING. 875
or territory or by any foreign country; and the prohibition of
sale of any lottery ticket or other device in the nature thereof
shall apply to lotteries drawn out of this State, as well as those
drawn within it.
Ballock v. State, 73 Md 2
1888, art 27, sec. 184. 1860, art. 30, sec. 119. 1860, ch. 388, sec. 11.
289. The courts shall construe the foregoing provisions
relating to lotteries liberally, and shall adjudge all tickets,
parts of tickets, certificates, or any other device whatsoever, by
which money or any other thing is to be paid or delivered on
the happening of any event or contingency, in the nature of a
lottery, to be lottery tickets.
Ibid.
Ibid. sec. 185. 1886, ch. 480, sec. 1.
290. No person or body corporate shall be permitted, either
directly or indirectly, by agent or otherwise, to barter, sell or
trade, or to offer for barter, sale or trade, by any publication,
or in any way, any wares, goods or merchandise of any descrip-
tion, in package or bulk, holding out as an inducement for any
such barter, sale or trade, or the offer of the same, any scheme
or device by way of gift enterprise of any kind or character
whatsoever.
Long v State, 73 Md. 527. Long v. State, 74 Md. 565.
Ibid. sec. 186. 1886, ch. 480, sec. 2.
291. Any person or body corporate violating the provisions
of the preceding section shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the
peace or court of competent jurisdiction in this State, shall be
fined not less than fifty dollars for any such offense.
Maiming.
Ibid, sec 187. 1860, art 30, sec 120 1809, ch. 138, sec. 4.
292. Every person, his aiders and abettors, who shall be
convicted of the crime of mayhem, or of tarring and feather-
ing, shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not more than
ten years nor less than eighteen months.
Ibid, sec 188. 1860, art. 30, sec. 121. 1809, ch 138, sec. 4.
293. Every person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors,
who shall be convicted of the crime of cutting out or disabling
the tongue, putting out an eye, slitting the nose, cutting or
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