DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1828

more, or to any county court, before whom any suit or ac-
tion at law, or any indictment under this act, or any other
act relative to lotteries, or the sale of lottery tickets within
this state, is or may be depending, that the state cannot have
a fair and impartial trial in such court, it shall and may be
lawful for the said court, in their discretion, to order and di-
rect the record of their proceedings in the said suit, action
or indictment, to be transmitted to the judges of any ad-
joining county court for trial, and the judges of such coun-
ty court shall hear and determine the same as if such suit,
action or prosecution, had been originally instituted therein;
and the said courts shall respectively hear and determine
every suit, action or prosecution, that shall hereafter be in-
stituted therein, on behalf of this state, under this act, or

ets within this state, at the first term of such court which
shall be or happen alter the institution of any such suit, ac-
tion or prosecution, unless to the court having jurisdiction
of such suit, action or prosecution, it shall appear necessa-
ry for the purposes of justice to postpone the trial thereoi
to a subsequent term.

CHAP. 129.

to be transmitted

to adjoining coun-

ty, &c

Sec. 16. And be it enacted, That no prosecution shall
be commenced for any omission to take out a license to vend
lottery tickets heretofore, or forany past violation ofthe ex-
isting laws relating to lotteries, or the sale of lottery tickets
within this state; and that in all cases of indictments or pre-
sentments now depending for such omission or violations the
same shall, on the payment of all costs, be dismissed by the
attorney for the state in the court wherein any such indict-
ment or presentment is depending.

No prosecution to

past violation of

existing laws, &c

Sec. 17. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful
for the governor and council to remit the part of any fine to
which any informer may be entitled under any law of this
state.

Part of fine which
informer may be

be remitted

Sec. 18. And be it enacted, That the 10th, 11th, 12th
and 13th sections of an act, entitled, An act to amend the
lottery system, chapter 160, passed at December session
1827, shall be and they hereby are made applicable as fol-
lows; that is to say, the 10th section thereof shall be con-
sidered as applicable to the 6th section, and the llth sec-
tion to the 7th, and the 12th section to the Sth, the 13th
section to the 9th, any thing in the said original act contain-

ed, to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sections of former

act made applica-

ble

Sec. 19. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the several county courts, and of the city court of Baltimore,
to give this act in charge to their respective grand juries.

Act to be given in
charge to grand

juries

Sec. 20. And be it enacted, That the third section of an
act passed at December session 1825, chapter 210, and all
acts, or parts of acts repugnant to the foregoing provisions of

Repeal

this act, are hereby repealed; Provided, that such repeal

Proviso