FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
year; or both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the

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court; provided, that this section shall not apply to any person
committing the acts thereby prohibited with intent to prevent
violations of this article, or to procure the punishment of
offences against the same.

Penalty.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a new section shall
be added to the said article twenty-seven of the Code of
Public General Laws, to come in after section two hundred
and twenty, and to be designa^fed as section two hundred and
twenty A, and to read as follows :

SEC. 220 .A. Any person who shall sell, lend, give away, or

New section.

show, or shall have in his possession with intent to sell, or give
away, or to show, or shall advertise, or otherwise offer for loan,
gift or distribution to any minor, any book, pamphlet,
magazine, newspaper or other printed paper devoted to the
publication, or principally made up of criminal news, police
reports, or accounts of criminal deeds, or pictures, and stories
of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime, or shall exhibit on any
street or highway, or in any other place within the view or
which may be within the view of any minor, any such book,
magazine, pamphlet, newspaper, writing, paper, picture,
drawing, photograph, or other article coming within the
description of articles mentioned in this section, or in the first
section of this act, shall, in every such case, be guilty of a

Sale to
minors of
papers con-
taining
criminal
news.

misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by
a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or shall be
imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both fined and
imprisoned, in the discretion of the court.

Penalty.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage; but nothing herein con-
tained shall apply to or affect any civil or criminal proceeding
actually pending at the date aforesaid.

Approved April 6th, 1894.

Effective.