LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

pacing or running race of persons, horses or beasts, or race or
contest of any kind, trotted, run or paced, or held within or with-
out the limits of "Harford county," or to establish, keep, rent or
occupy, or knowingly suffer to be occupied, any house, build-
ing, vessel, grounds or place on land or water within the limits
of Harford county, for the purpose of betting, wagering or
gambling in any manner, or by any means, or making, selling
or buying books or pools therein or thereon, upon the result of
any race or contest aforesaid, or within the limits of Harford
county by any means of devices whatsoever to receive, become
the depository of record or register, or forward or purport on
pretend to forward any money, bet, wager, thing or considera-
tion of value to be bet, gambled or wagered in any manner, or
by any means or devices whatsoever upon the result of any race
or contest aforesaid, or to aid, assist or abet in any manner, or
by, any means whatsoever within the limits of "Harford
county," in any of the Acts forbidden by the provisions of
this section.
136 B. Any and every person or association of persons violat-
ing any of the provisions of the preceding section shall be

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deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be subject to a fine of not less than two hundred dollars
and not exceeding five hundred dollars, one-half to go to the
informer and the other half to go the Board of County School
Commissioners of Harford county for the use of the public
schools thereof, or imprisonment in the county jail for a period
of not less than six months or more than one year, or both fine
and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all laws and parts of laws,

Penalty

general or local, inconsistent with this Act, so far as the same
may apply to Harford county be and the same are hereby
repealed.

Repeal.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted. That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 5, 1898.

CHAPTER 213.
AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to meet the addi-
tional expenses of the Legislature of Maryland, for the
Session of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much

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Elective.