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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Passed May
16, 1853.
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CHAPTER 183.
AN ACT to provide for the suppressing obscene and
licentious publications.
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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, The publication of obscene
and licentious
matter in the shape of advertisements in newspapers
and other periodicals in this State has become
frequent of late years, and is, in the judgment of the
Legislature, exceedingly injurious to the morals of the
community; And whereas, although in the judgment
of the Legislature, such advertisements and publications
are contra bonos mores, and punishable by the
common law, it is desirable that the common law in
this regard be re-enacted and enforced; Therefore,
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Punishment
to be inflicted
for violation.
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Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland,
That whenever any newspaper or other periodical publication,
printed, issued or published in this State, shall
contain any obscene or licentious matter, whether the
same be contained in any professional or other advertisement,
or in any other article, whether original communicated
or copied from any other publication, every
proprietor and publisher shall be held to be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished
by a time of not less than twenty dollars, nor more
than two hundred dollars, and imprisoned for not less
than ten days nor more than one year, in the discretion
of the court in which the conviction shall be had, and
each successive number of any newspaper or other
periodical containing any such obscene or licentious
matter, shall be deemed a new publication thereof, and
shall subject every proprietor and publisher to indictment
and punishment as for a distinct offence.
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Passed May
17, 1853.
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CHAPTER 184.
AN ACT to enforce the collection of Taxes levied for
the use of
Dorchester county.
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May enforce
collection of
taxes by distress
or execution.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That from and after the passage of this
act, it shall, and may be lawful for the collector or collectors
of the taxes levied or to be levied for the use of
Dorchester county, to enforce the collection of the
same by distress or execution.
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