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games as above mentioned are conducted or engage in or participate in any manner in
the conduct of any of such games or witness the participation therein of others who
may lawfully be on said premises.]

[11-4.

Any person or persons, firm or corporation, whether the proprietor or the person
in charge of any pool or billiard room or bowling alley in any place in Garrett County,
who shall violate any of the provisions of §§ 11-1 through 11-3 of this chapter shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a
fine of not less than five dollars ($5.) nor more than twenty dollars ($20.) one-half
(1/2) of any fine so imposed and collected to be paid to the informer thereof.]

[11-5.

It shall not be lawful for any person keeping a drinking saloon, pool or billiard
table or tables in Garrett County to allow any minor to frequent or lounge about his
place of business or play pool or billiards therein except upon the written permission
of the parents or guardians of such minor. Any person permitting a minor to so
frequent or lounge about his place of business or to play pool or billiards therein
except upon such written permission of the parents or guardians of such minor shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof before a District
Court, shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.) nor more than fifty
dollars ($50.) for each and every offense, one-half (1/2) of said fine to go to the
informer and the other one-half (1/2) to be paid to the School Commissioner of said
county for the benefit of the public schools therein, and in default of the payment of
such fine and costs, the offender shall be committed to the county jail for 30 days or
until such fine and costs are paid, whichever shall first occur.]

[Chapter 26
Crimes and Punishments]

[26-1.

A. Labor on public roads, buildings or grounds permitted. In addition to any
sentence of confinement in the county jail of Garrett County which may be
imposed in cases of conviction of assault, drunkenness, disorderly conduct,
disturbing the public peace, vagrancy, petit larceny, or any misdemeanor
where the punishment prescribed by law shall not exceed three (3) years'
imprisonment in the penitentiary or house of correction by the Circuit Court
for Garrett County or any District Court for Garrett County having criminal
jurisdiction, said Court or District Court may, in the discretion of said Court
or said District Court, also in said sentence direct that any prisoner over
sixteen (16) years of age who may be convicted of any of the offenses
enumerated above shall be subject to perform hard labor for and during the
period of his imprisonment on the public roads, buildings and grounds of
Garrett County or on the public streets of any incorporated town in said
county, provided that during the employment of such convict on the public

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