890 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

printed any circular, advertisement or notice of any kind, or
giving information orally, stating when, where, how or of whom
or by what means such a lewd, indecent or obscene article or
thing can be purchased, seen or obtained, shall in every such
case be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars
or shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or be both
fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court; provided,
that this section shall not apply to any person committing
the acts thereby prohibited with intent to prevent violations
of this sub-title or to procure the punishment of offenses
against the same.

1894, ch. 271, sec. 220 A.

340. Any person who shall sell, lend, give away or show,
or have in his possession with intent to sell or give away or
show, or shall advertise or otherwise offer for loan, gift or dis-
tribution to any minor any book, pamphlet, magazine, news-
paper or other printed paper devoted to the publication, or
principally made up of criminal news, police reports or accounts
of criminal deeds, or pictures and stories of deeds of blood-
shed, lust or crime, or shall exhibit on any street or highway,
or in any other place within the view of any minor any such
book, magazine, pamphlet, newspaper, writing, paper, picture,
drawing, photograph or other article coming within the descrip-
tion of articles mentioned in this section, or in the preceding
section shall in every case be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceed-
ing two hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned not exceeding
one year, or be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of
the court.

Opium Joints.

1888, art. 27, sec. 221. 1886, ch 127, sec 1.

341. If any person shall set up or establish, or cause to be
set up or established in any building, house, room, outhouse,
tent, booth, arbor, shed, vessel or other place whatsoever any
apparatus or device or instrument whereby opium may be
smoked or used in any manner whatsoever by other persons ;
or if any person shall procure, permit, suffer or allow persons
to collect and assemble in his house, building, room, outhouse,
tent, booth, arbor, shed or vessel, or other place whatsoever
under his control, for the purpose of smoking opium, or of
using opium in any manner; or if the owner, tenant, lessee or