FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 525.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section

eight of article 56 of the Code of Public General Laws,

title, "Licenses," sub-title, "Billiards."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section 8 of article 56 of the Code of Public

Repealed

General Laws, title, "Licenses," sub-title, "Billiards," be

and

and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-

re-enacted.

ments so as to read as follows :

8. A license may be granted to any person who may apply

for permission to keep a billiard table for which license

Billiard

there shall be paid the sum of fifty dollars, and for every

license.

additional billiard table kept by the same person he shall

pay a license of twenty-five dollars, provided that all said

additional tables shall be kept in the same apartment and

the word billiard table shall be construed to include pool

tables, and provided further that any person who shall keep

a pool or billiard table where a charge is made for playing

on the same, but the said charge is returned or is to be

returned to the players to be exchanged with the owner of

said table or his agent for money, drinks, cigars or any

other articles of merchandise, that this shall be considered

gambling, and such tables shall be deemed gaming tables

for the purposes of this act, and the person so keeping such

table shall be liable to the penalty or penalties prescribed

by the Public General Laws for keeping a gaming table or

other place of gaming or permitting gambling on his or

her premises.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 526.

ENTITLED AN ACT to authorize the County Commis-

sioners of Washington County to issue bonds for building

a school house in Cavetown, in election district No. 7 in

said county, to levy a tax for the payment of same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Washington

To Issue

County be and they are hereby authorized and empowered,

bonds.

in their discretion to issue bonds to an amount not exceed-

ing one thousand dollars in sums not less than one hundred

nor more than five hundred dollars each to be signed by