1184 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [ CH. 483

is hereby defined as gaming within the meaning of this sub-
title.

SEC. 243-B. It shall be unlawful for any person or per-
sons, or any house, company or association, or body corporate,
to set up, keep, maintain or conduct any gaming table, or any
house, vessel or place on land or on water within the limits
of Montgomery County for the purpose of gaining as defined
by Section 243-A, or to operate any kind of devise whatsoever
intended for the purpose of gaming as defined in Section
243-A; and it shall be unlawful for any person to deal at any
gaming table or other place for gambling in Montgomery
County or to manage or be interested financially, in any gam-
ing table, house or establishment maintained for gaming, in
Montgomery County, or in the profits thereof.

SEC. 243-C. Gambling paraphernalia within the meaning
of this sub-title is hereby defined to include any table, appa-
ratus, device, machine or article of any kind or description
intended to be used for the purpose of gaming as defined by
Section 243-A of this sub-title. Money which shall be found
on a table on which gaming is at the time being conducted,
shall be gambling paraphernalia within the meaning of this
sub-title. The possession of gambling paraphernalia as herein
defined shall be a violation of this sub-title. All gambling
paraphernalia within the territorial limits of Montgomery
County, as herein defined, shall be subject to seizure by the
law officers of Montgomery County, and upon conviction of
the owner or possessor of such paraphernalia, the said para-
phernalia shall be forfeited to the County and disposed of in
accordance with the order of the Court having jurisdiction
to try violations of this sub-title. The Court is hereby author-
ized in its discretion to direct the sale of such paraphernalia
and the payment of the proceeds into the Police Fund of the
County, or, if such paraphernalia consists of money, the pay-
ment of the same direct into such fund.

SEC. 243-D. Every person who shall violate Section 243-A
or 243-B or 243-C of this sub-title is hereby declared to be a
principal and not an accomplice, and conviction of any viol-
lator of this sub-title may be had on the uncorroborated testi-
mony of any other person who shall violate this sub-title, even
though such other person shall participate in the same act of
gaming as the person so convicted, and every person engaged
in gaming as defined in this sub-title is hereby required to