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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. Duvall.
    A person who hires out his billiard-room for two days, is liable to the penalty of the Act of Maryland, 1798, c. 113.
    Indictment for keeping a billiard-table for use, without license.
   The Court

(Fitzhugh, J.,.absent,)

decided that the defendant who had hired a room in the county of Washington, (out of the jurisdiction of the corporations of Washington and Georgetown,) and set up his billiard-table in it, and. rented it to Scott, for two days, for 30 dollars, was liable to the penalty of 150 dollars, under th,e Act of Assembly of Maryland, 1798, c. 113; and that it was immaterial whether he received the rent all at once, or by sixpence a game. Verdict, guilty — fined 150 dollars.