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ment Volume and 1971 Supplement), title "Crimes and Punish-
ments," subtitles "Crimes and Punishments" and "Places of Refor-
mation and Punishments," subheadings "False Pretenses, Bad
Checks, etc.," "Gaming," "Health-Controlled Dangerous Sub-
stances" and "Division of Correction," correcting certain errors
in the laws relating to crimes and punishments.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 140, 257 (a), 277 (j), 281 (a), 281 (h), 282 (c), 287
(d), and 700A (b-1) of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1971 Replacement Volume and 1971 Supplement), title "Crimes
and Punishments," subtitles "Crimes and Punishments" and "Places
of Reformation and Punishments," subheadings "False Pretenses,
Bad Checks, etc.," "Gaming," "Health-Controlled Dangerous Sub-
stances" and "Division of Correction" be and they are hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

140.

Any person who shall by any false pretense obtain from any other
person any chattel, money or valuable security, with intent to de-
fraud any person of the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the
court, to be punished by fine and imprisonment, or by confinement
in the penitentiary for not less than two years nor more than ten
years, as the court shall award; provided always, that if upon the
trial of any person charged with such misdemeanor it shall be proved
that he obtained the property in question in any such manner as
to amount in law to larceny or robbery, he shall not by reason there-
of be entitled to be acquitted of such misdemeanor; and no person
tried upon such misdemeanor shall be afterwards liable for larceny
or robbery upon the same facts; and provided also, that a mere
promise [to be prosecuted] for future payment, though not in-
tended to be performed, shall not be sufficient to authorize a con-
viction under this section. In Wicomico County, St. Mary's County,
Worcester County, Caroline County, Prince George's County, Balti-
more County and Anne Arundel County where the amount of money

or the value of the thing received does not exceed three hundred

dollars ($300.00), the people's court and the trial magistrates, re-
spectively, shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court
to try persons charged with violating this section and Sections 142
and 144 of this article, provided that persons so convicted in the
people's court or trial magistrate's court shall not be sentenced to

the penitentiary by that court. In Baltimore City where the amount

of money or the value of the thing received does not exceed five

hundred dollars ($500.00), the Municipal Court of Baltimore City
shall have jurisdiction to try persons charged with violating this
section, provided that persons so convicted in the Municipal Court
shall not be sentenced to the penitentiary by that court.

257.

(a) Operation of carnivals, etc., by certain organizations not pro-
hibited; prizes; "raffle" defined; permits.—Nothing in this subtitle
shall be construed to make it unlawful for any bona fide religious,
fraternal, civic, war veterans' hospital, amateur athletic organiza-
tion in which all playing members are less than eighteen years of