HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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are also hereby authorized and empowered,
in their discretion, to erect or cause to be
erected a lockup in the town of Oxford, in
said county; provided, that the cost of said
lockup shall not exceed the sum of three
hundred dollars.

Lockup in
Oxford.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said
County Commissioners of Talbot county are
also hereby empowered, in their discretion, to
erect a lockup at the town of St. Michaels, in
said county; provided, that the cost of said
lockup shall not exceed the sum of three
hundred dollars.

Lockup in

St. Michaels.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1886.

Effective.

CHAPTER 127.

AN ACT to prevent the establishment of joints,
booths or other places for the smoking or
other use of opium.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of the State of Maryland, That if any per-
son shall set up or establish, or cause to be set up
or established in any building, house, room, out-
house, 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 persons shall procure, per-
mit, suffer or allow persons to collect and
assemble in his house, building, room, out-
house, 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 occupant of any house, room, out-
house, tent, booth, arbor or other place what-

Smoking
Opium.