1828

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 129.

en, procured, supplied, notified or registered; and to a fine
not exceeding two hundred dollars for each and every day or
part of a day, that such office, house, or other place, shall
be so opened, set up, used or kept, or to imprisonment not
exceeding six months for any and every such offence.

Licenses to be

granted, &c.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That a license to sell, vend,
barter, furnish, procure, notify and register, tickets in the
lotteries granted by this state, and which shall be approved
of by the lottery commissioners, or be proposed by the said
commissioners on behalf of this state, shall be issued to any
person or persons applying for the same, who at the time
of making such application, shall pay therefor to the clerk
of the city court of Baltimore, if to be used in the said ci-
ty, or within five miles thereof, at the rate of two hundred
dollars per annum, to the use of the state, or if elsewhere
to be employed, then to the clerk of the county in which
the same is to be used, at the rate of fifty dollars per an-
num, to the use of the state, which said license shall in
each and every case be limited to, and expire on, the first
day of the month of May, which shall happen after the
date thereof; and the clerk of the court issuing the same
shall be entitled to demand and receive to his own use, from
the person or persons obtaining such license, the sum of two
dollars for each and every such license issued by him, which
sum shall be in lull of all other compensation for the agen-
cy of the said clerk, concerning said licenses, or the mo-
ney received therefor, and paid over by him to the use of

Proviso

the state: Provided always, that before any such license
shall be issued, the person or persons obtaining the same
shall severally give a bond to the state of Maryland, in the
penal sum of three thousand dollars, if in the city of Bal-
timore, or within five miles thereof, and if elsewhere, then
in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, the said bond to
be approved by and delivered to the clerk issuing such li-
cense, and to contain a condition that the person or persons
obtaining such license, shall not, during the continuance
thereof, directly or indirectly, sell, vend, barter, assure,
give, famish, supply, procure, or cause to be sold, vend-
ed, bartered, assured, given, furnished, supplied or procur-
ed, to or for any person or persons, any ticket, share or in-
terest in any ticket, or prize in any lottery, or other device
or game of chance, or any certificate, writing or token, that
any person or persons shall be, or become entitled to any
prize, or interest whatsoever that shall be dependent on the
drawing or determination of any lottery, or other device,
or game of chance, other than such as have been granted by
the state of Maryland, and approved of by the lottery com-
missioners, or which shall be proposed by the. said commis-
sioners on behalf of this state; and also that the person or
persons obtaining such license will, during the continuance