80S LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 390

Maryland State Board of Censors, any certificate or statement
in the form provided by Section 7 hereof or any similar cer-
tificate, statement or writing, or any person who shall exhibit
any folder, poster, picture or other advertising matter, which
folder, poster, picture or other advertising matter is obscene,
indecent, sacrilegious, inhuman or immoral., or which tends
to unduly excite or deceive the public, or containing any mat-
ter not therein contained when the approval was granted by
the Board, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion summarily before a Justice of the Peace, shall be fined not
less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars
($100), or imprisonment for not over thirty days, or be both
fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the said Justice of
the Peace. In addition to the above penalties, the Board may
also seize and confiscate any misbranded film.

In all cases arising under this section there may be an
appeal from the decision of the Magistrate or Jusitce of the
Peace where the fine imposed is in excess of fifty dollars
($50.00), or where the penalty imposed includes any term of
imprisonment whatever.

21. If any person shall fail to display or exhibit, on the
screen the approval seal, as issued by the Board, of a film
or view, which has been approved, and is convicted sum-
marily before any Magistrate, or Justice of the Peace, he shall
be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than five dollars and not
more than ten dollars; in default of payment of a fine and costs,
the defendant shall be sentenced to imprisonment, in the prison
of the county, or in Baltimore City, where such offense was
committed, for not less than two days and not more than five
days.

22. This Article shall not apply to any non-commercial
exhibition of, or non-commercial use of films or views, for
purely educational, charitable, fraternal or religious purposes,
by any religious association, fraternal society, library museum,
public school, private school or institution of learning. The
Board may, in its discretion, without examination thereof,
issue a permit for any motion picture film, intended solely
for educational, fraternal, charitable or religious purposes, or
by any employer for the instruction or welfare of his em-
ployees, provided that the owner thereof either personally or
by his duly authorized attorney or representative, shall file
the prescribed application, which shall include a sworn descrip-
tion of the film, No fee shall be charged for any such permit.