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other property play with cards marked or in any
manner so designated or distinguished as to enable
such person to obtain an advantage not possessed by
every one with whom he shall play, or shall use any
fraudulent means whatsoever to obtain an undue ad-
vanlage in playing of any game where money or
property is dependent on the result; or shall keep a
room, building, arbor, booth, shed, tenement, boat,
float, or place to be used for insuring or betting or
wagering or receiving any consideration, money or
other thing, or making any promise or agreement as
aforesaid, he shall be considered under this act as a
common Gambler, and shall on conviction be impri-
soned not less than ten days nor more than six months,
in the jail of the city or county where the offence
shall be committed, at the discretion of the court in
which the conviction shall be had, and shall pay a
fine of not less than twenty five dollars and not more
than one thousand dollars, and in case the said fine
and costs shall not be paid before the expiration of
the term for which such person shall be sentenced to
be imprisoned, he shall further be imprisoned or re-
main imprisoned in the said jail until the said fine
and costs shall be paid, or until the said fine and costs
shall be satisfied, accounting each day's actual impri-
sonment of such person us a payment of one dollar
of the amount of said fine and costs, and one-half
of the amount of every such fine or of so much
thereof as shall not be satisfied by imprisonment as
aforesaid shall be paid to the informer, who shall be
a competent witness, and the other half shall be paid
for the use of the public schools of the county in
which such offence shall be committed: or if com-
mitted in the city of Baltimore, to the Mayor and
city council of Baltimore, for the use of the public
schools of said city, and in no case shall judgment
be suspended beyond the last day of the term of the
court during which such conviction shall have taken
place.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if an affidavit shall
be filed with any justice of the peace for any county
of this State, or of the city of Baltimore, before whom
complaint shall have been made of any offence against
any provision of this act, stating that the affiant has
reason to believe and does believe that the person so
charged in such complaint has at any place named in
such affidavit, any gaming table, device, or appara-
tus, or any register, list, memorandum, or book of
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Duty of officer.
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