LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.
415. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons or asso-

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ciation of persons, or for any corporation or corporations, to
bet, wager or gamble, in any manner or by any means, or make,
sell or buy, books or pools, or any interest therein, within the
limits of Cecil county, on the result of any trotting, pacing or
running race of horses or other beasts, or race or contest of any
kind, trotted, run or paced, or held within or without the limits
of Cecil county aforesaid, or to establish, keep, rent, use or
occupied, or knowingly suffer to be used, kept, rented or occu-
pied, any house, building, vessel, grounds or place, or portion
of any house, building, vessel, grounds or place, on land or
water, within the limits of Cecil county aforesaid, for the pur-
pose 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 Cecil county aforesaid, by any means or
devices whatsoever, to receive, become the depository, of record
or register or forward, or purport or pretend to forward, any
money, bet, wager, thing or consideration 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 whatso-
ever, within the limits of Cecil county aforesaid, in any of the
acts forbidden by the provisions of this section ; any and every
person or corporation violating any of the provisions of this

Unlawful to
bet, wager
or gamble.

section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be subject to a tine of not less than
two hundred dollars and not exceeding tive hundred dollars,
one-half thereof to go to the informer, and the other half
thereof to go to the Board of County School Commissioners
of Cecil county, for the use of the public schools thereof, or
imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than
six months nor more than one year, or both fine and imprison-
ment in the discretion of the court.

Penalty.

SEC. 2. That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this
Act, so far as they apply to Cecil county, be and the same are
hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. That this Act shall take effect from the fourth day

Repeal.

of April, 1898, but nothing herein contained shall apply to on
affect any civil or criminal proceeding pending at the date
aforesaid.
Approved March 2, 1898.

Effective.