1820.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 83.

tained shall be construed to prohibit any person or persons from
buying or selling any of the articles named in this section at the
dwelling house, tavern, warehouse, store-house, store or vessel, of
the buyer or seller, or on his or her own lands, or at any mar-
ket place regularly established before that time.

Justice on infor-
mation, to issue
warrant, &c.

3. And be it enacted, That, it shall be the duty of any justice of
the peace for the county in which any camp or quarterly meeting
may he held as aforesaid, upon information made before him, sup-
ported by affidavit, that any person hath offended against any of
the provisions of this law, to issue his warrant directed to a con-
stable, or to any other person by name willing to execute the same,
to apprehend and bring before him the said justice of the peace,
or some, other justice of the peace for the same county, the per-
son so charged with having offended, and it shall be the duty of
the constable, or other person to whom the said warrant shall be
directed, forthwith to arrest the person so charged with having
offended, and bring him or her before the justice of the peace by
whom the said warrant shall have been issued, or Rome other jus-
tice of the peace for the same county, and the justice of the
peace before, whom the person so charged shall be brought, shall
thereupon cause such party to enter into recognizance, with suf-
ficient security, to be approved of by the said justice, in the pe-
nalty of forty dollars, for his personal appearance at the next
county court to be holden for the same county, to answer the
charge so made against him or her, and if the person so charged
shall neglect or refuse to enter into such recognizance, it shall be
the duty of said justice of the peace to commit him or her to the
public gaol of said county, three to remain until such recognizance
shall be given, or until said offender shall be discharged from pri-

Proviso.

son by due course of law; Provided nevertheless, that if the said
offender, upon being brought before a justice of the peace as
aforesaid, shall pay to the said justice the one half of the penalty
imposed by this law for the offence charged, (to be paid over by
the Raid justice to the levy court of the county wherein the of-
fence may have been committed for the use of the county,) it
shall then be the duty of the said justice to release and discharge
such offender, and no other proceedings shall elsewhere be had
against said offender for that offence.

Penalty for dis-
turbing congrega-
tion, &c.

4. And be it enacted, That in case any person shall by drunk-
enness, or other disorderly behaviour, disturb the congregation
met as aforesaid for the purpose of worship at any time during
such camp or quarterly meeting, it shall be the duty of any jus-
tice of the peace on his view, or on the information of any per-
son, supported by affidavit, to have such offending person brought
before him, or some other justice of the peace for the same coun-
ty immediately, in the manner directed in the third section of this
law, and to cause such person, so offending, to enter into re-
cognizance in the penalty of twenty dollars, with sufficient se-
curity to be approved of by the justice, for the sobriety and good
behaviour of such offender during the continuance of the said
camp or quarterly meeting, and upon the neglect or refusal of
the person so offending to enter into such recognizance, it shall
be the duty of the justice before whom the said offender shall be
brought, to commit such offender to the public gaol of the county