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Case No. 15,591.
    UNITED STATES v. LEFEVRE.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 244.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    July Term, 1805.
    Keeping a Faro Table.
    Under the act of assembly of Maryland, 1797. c. 110, the offence of keeping a faro table can only be committed by a tavern keeper or retailor of spirituous liquors.
    Indictment for keeping a faro table, at common law, and on the act of assembly of Maryland, 1797, c. 110.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief .1 mlge.]
    
   THE COURT

was of opinion, that in order to bring the traverser within the act of assembly, he must be either a tavern keeper, or a retailer of spirituous liquors, by being in the custom of selling liquors by retail, either with or without license.

Whereupon Mr. Jones gave up the count upon the statute.