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CHAP. 129.
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prize in any lottery, or other device of game of chance
with intent to defraud any person, body corporate or politic
whatsoever; or shall utter or publish as true, or shall sell or
exchange, or offer for sale or exchange, any false, altered,
forged or counterfeited ticket, in any lottery, or other de-
vice or game of chance, or part or share of any such ticket,
or any certificate, writing or evidence of any interest in any
ticket, or prize in any lottery, or other device or game of
chance, with intent to defraud any person, body corporate
or politic whatsoever, knowing the same to be false, altered,
forged or counterfeited; then any such person, being thereof
convicted in the due course of law, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to confinement in
the penitentiary not exceeding seven years.
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Act to be constru-
ed largely and
all offenders, &c
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Sec. 14. And be it enacted, That to the end that no per-
son or persons within this state shall sell, vend, barter, as-
sure, furnish, supply, procure, notify or register, any tick-
et or tickets, or share of any ticket in any lottery or lotte-
ries, or other device or game of chance, or any certificate,
writing or token, of any interest whatever, in any lottery
or lotteries, or other device or game of chance, or in any
prize or interest that may be dependent on the drawing or
determination thereof, which shall have been expressly
granted by this state, and approved of by the lottery com-
missioners, or which shall be proposed by the said commis-
sioners on behalf of this state, unless such person or persons
shall be duly licensed to sell, vend, barter or otherwise trade,
in tickets of lotteries granted and approved as aforesaid,
and also to the end that no person or persons within this
state shall sell, vend, barter, assure, give, furnish, supply,
procure, notify or register, any ticket or tickets, in any lot-
tery or lotteries, or other device or game of chance, or any
certificate, writing or token, of any interest whatsoever in
any lottery or lotteries, or other device or game of chance,
or in any" prize or interest that may be dependent on the
drawing or determination thereof, and which shall not have
been expressly granted by this state, and approved of by
the lottery commissioners, or which shall not have been
proposed by the said commissioners on behalf of this state,
it shall be, and hereby is made the duty of every coun-
ty court of this state, and of Baltimore city court, for the
repressing and preventing such forbidden notifications, sales
and trafficking, to construe every part of this act, and of
every other act relative to lotteries, and the sale of lottery
tickets within this state, largely and strongly against all per-
sons who shall offend against the true meaning or intents
thereof, directly or indirectly, by any shift or device, or by
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