900 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

interfere with, affect or modify the prosecution and punish-
ment of offenders for any offense committed prior to February
27, 1902.

Isaacs v. State, 23 Md. 410. Kearney v. State, 48 Md. 16 State v.
Hodges, 55 Md. 136.

Religious Meetings.

1888, art. 27, sec. 235. 1860, art. 30, sec. 164. 1725, ch. 6. 1747, ch. 17.
1824, ch. 53, secs, land 2. 1839, ch. 32,sec. 1. 1844,ch. 173. 1846, ch. 145.

372. If any person shall erect, place, or have any booth,
stall, tent, carriage, boat, vessel or other vehicle or contrivance
whatever, for the purpose or use of selling, giving or other-
wise disposing of any kind of spirituous or fermented liquors,
or any other articles of traffic, or shall sell, give, barter or
otherwise dispose of any spirituous or fermented liquors, or
any other articles of traffic within two miles of any camp-meet-
ing, or other place of religious worship, during the time of
holding any meeting for religious worship at such place, such
person, on conviction before a justice of the peace, for the first
offense shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty
dollars, and stand committed to jail until the fine and costs are
paid; and for the second offense shall be fined as aforesaid,
and be imprisoned not less than ten nor more than thirty days.

Ibid. sec. 236. 1860, art. 30, sec. 165 1824, ch. 53, sec. 2. 1827, ch, 29, B.-C. 1.

373. If any person shall commit au offense against the
provisions of the preceding section he shall in addition to the
penalties therein mentioned forfeit all such spirituous or fer-
mented liquors and other articles of traffic, and all the chests
and other things containing the same, belonging to and in the
possession of the person so offending, together with such
booth, stall, tent, carriage, boat, vessel, vehicle or other con-
trivance or thing prepared and used in violation of said section.
And it shall be the duty of any sheriff, deputy sheriff or con-
stable, if he sees any person violating the preceding section,
to arrest the offender and carry him before a justice of the
peace. The sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable, when he
arrests the offender, shall seize the property hereby declared
to be forfeited, or shall seize the same on a warrant against
the offender, if such offender cannot be found; and the justice
of the peace before whom such offender is convicted, or before
whom the warrant is returned that the offender cannot be
found, shall enter judgment of condemnation against such
property, and issue a fieri facias for the sale thereof; pro-
vided, the person who has been returned not found and whose