1828

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 129.

et 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 whatso-
ever that shall be dependent on the drawing or determina-
tion of any lottery, or other device or game of chance,
which shall have been expressly granted by this state, and
approved of by the lottery commissioners, on behalf of this
state, or shall be aiding, abutting or assisting therein, unless
such person or persons, or his, her or their employer or em-
ployers, shall have duly obtained, and be entitled to use a
license, for selling lottery tickets in the city or county, and
at or in the office, house or place, in or at which such offer
or agreement shall be made, such person or persons shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof
shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or to im-
prisonment not exceeding six months for earn and every
such offence.

A Tender of tick-

ets convicted of

any offence speci-

fied in this act, to

forfeit his license,

&c.

pis

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That if any licensed ven-
der of lottery tickets shall be convicted of any of the offences
"specified by this act, or by any other act of this state relative
to lotteries, or the sale of lottery tickets, within this slate,
his license shall, by any such conviction, become forfeited,
and be held absolutely null and void, and such person shall
forever thereafter be debarred from receiving any license to
vend lottery tickets in this state; but no such forfeiture of
any license shall prevent any prosecution on the bond giv-
en by such vender to obtain such license, nor shall such con-
viction and forfeiture, bar any suit or recovery upon such
bond.

Proceeding in

case of suit of pro-

secution under

this act

Sec. 11. And be it enacted, Thaton the trial of any suit
or prosecution under this act, or any other act of this state,
relative to the sale of lottery tickets within this state, it
shall not be necessary to prove that the ticket, share in any
ticket, certificate, writing or token, of any interest whatsoe-
ver in any lottery or other device or game of chance, or in
any prize that shall be dependent on the drawing or deter-
mination of any lottery or other device or game of chance,
sold, vended, bartered, assured, given, furnished, supplied,
procured, notified or registered, or offered, or agreed to be
sold, vended, bartered, assured, given, furnished, supplied,
procured, notified or registered, was signed, issued or given,
by the authority of any person having or assuming to have,
authority to sign, issue or give the same; but in all cases,
proof of the sale, furnishing, vending, bartering, giving,
procuring, supplying, assuring, notifying or registering of
any ticket, share of any ticket, certificate, writing or token,
of any interest whatsoever in any lottery or other device or
game of chance, or of the offer thereof or agreement there-
for, or of any paper, instrument or token, written, printed
or otherwise, purporting to be a ticket, share or part of a