1294: LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 616

or animal, or to commit any other unnatural or perverted
sexual practice with any other person or animal, prescribing
the form of indictment which shall be sufficient in. describ-
ing said crimes and providing the penalty therefor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be added to Article 27 of the Code
of Public General Laws of Maryland of 1910, as legalized by
Chapter 16 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
of 1914, title "Crimes and Punishments, " sub-title "Sodomy, "
said new section so added to come in immediately after section
439 of said Article 27, and to be known as Section 439-A of
said Article 27 and to read as follows:

SEC. 439-A. Every person who shall be convicted of taking
into his or her mouth the sexual organ of any other
person or animal, or who shall be convicted of placing Ms or
her sexual organ in the mouth of any other person or animal,
or who shall be convicted of committing any other unnatural
or perverted sexual practice with any other person or animal,
shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1, 000. 00),
or be imprisoned in jail or in the House of Correction or in
the Penitentiary for a period not exceeding ten years, or shall
be both fined and imprisoned within the limits above prescribed
in the discretion of the Court.

And in any indictment for the commission of any of the
acts, hereby declared to be offenses, it shall not be necessary
to set forth the particular unnatural or perverted sexual
practice with the commission of which the defendant may be
charged, nor to set forth the particular manner in which said
unnatural or perverted sexual practice was committed, but it
shall be sufficient if the indictment set forth that the defendant
committed a certain unnatural and perverted sexual practice
with a person or animal, as the case may be.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is one of
emergency, and necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public safety, it shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved April 18th, 1916.