ART. 27] OPIUM JOINTS. 891

occupant of any house, room, outhouse, tent, booth, arbor or
other place whatever shall lease, hire, rent or permit the same,
or any part thereof, to be used and occupied or employed for
the purpose of smoking opium, or of using opium in any way
or manner by other persons, the persons so offending in either
of the enumerated cases shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars and undergo imprisonment in jail not exceed-
ing one year; the owner of such building, house, room, out-
house, tent, booth, arbor, shed, vessel or other place whatso-
ever, who shall have received information that any such
smoking, or use as aforesaid, is practised in or upon said
promises, and shall not, within ten days thereafter, cause com-
plaint to be made against the person or persons who has or
have set up or established, or permitted the same, shall be
deemed and held to have knowingly leased, hired or rented the
premises for the said unlawful purposes.

1888, art. 27, sec. 222. 1886, ch. 127, sec. 2.

342. If any person shall keep or exhibit any apparatus,
device or instrument for the smoking of opium, or for using
opium in any way or manner by other persons, or aid or assist
or permit others to do the same, such person shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced
to imprisonment in jail not exceeding one year, and to a fine
not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Ibid, sec 2231 1886, ch. 127, sec. 3.

343. If any person shall, through solicitation, invitation or
device, persuade or prevail on any person to visit any place
mentioned in the two preceding sections, kept for the purpose
of smoking opium, or of using opium in any way or manner,
such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof be sentenced to pay a fine not exceed-
ing five hundred dollars and undergo imprisonment in jail not
exceeding one year.

Ibid sec. 224 1886, ch. 127, sec. 4.

344. Whenever any officer of police, or any police officer,
any sheriff or deputy sheriff, in the city of Baltimore or other
city or town of this State having a regularly organized police
force, or any sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable in any county
shall make oath before any justice of the peace that he has