LLOYD LPWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
subject to a fine of not less than two hundred dollars nor more
than one thousand dollars, one-half of said fine to go to the
informer, and shall be subject to imprisonment in jail for not
less than six months nor more than one year, or both fined and
imprisoned in the discretion of the court.
124 B. Nothing in the next preceding section shall render it

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unlawful in any county of this State, other than Baltimore
city, for any person or persons to make a pool or a book, or to
bet within the ground of any agricultural association, race
course or driving park, upon the result of any trotting, pacing
or running race of horses which shall be held within the same
grounds, race course or driving park upon which said person
shall so make a pool or book, or shall so bet upon the. same day
on which said race shall be held ; provided, the grounds of
such agricultural association, race course or driving park bo
licensed in the manner set forth in the next succeeding section
by the Circuit Court of the county within which such grounds
or track may be located.
124 C. Every person applying for a license as required by
the next preceding section shall file with the Circuit Court of

Unlawful in
Baltimore
to gamble.

the county within which the grounds of such agricultural asso-
ciation, race course or driving park may be located, his, her or
their petition for such a license, and before granting the said
license the said court shall cause notification of said petition to
be published, at the cost of the applicant, at least once a week
for three successive weeks, in a newspaper published in the
county in which the grounds aforesaid may be located.
124 D. The said petition shall contain the name or names of

License
applied lor.

the applicant or applicants ; second, the name of the grounds
upon which the license is desired ; third, a definite description
of the place where such grounds are located ; fourth, a day or
days for which such license is desired, and there shall be
annexed to this petition a certificate signed by at least twenty-
five respectable qualified voters of the election district of the
county in which such grounds may be located, praying the
court to grant the said license.
124 E. In such license the name of the grounds, track or

Contain the
name of
applicants.

park shall be stated, and the number of days in which, and the
month thereof, during which betting, pool selling or bookmak-
ing shall be permitted, shall be specified, and the said court
shall not grant, in the aggregate, licenses for more than thirty
days in any year, nor more than fifteen days in any one month
in any county of this State, nor for any days whatsoever dur-

Name of
grounds,
etc., to be
stated.