The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-06-02
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS.

ord or register, or forward or purpose Oh gree
or pretend to forward any money, bet. wager,
thing or consideration of value, to u bet,
gambled or wagered in any manner, Or by
any means or device whatsoever upon the
result of any race, contest or CONTINGENCY,
and any person violating any of the pr visi-
ons of this section shall be deemed quit of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be subject to fine ofnot less than two
hundred dollars nor more than one thousand
dollars, one-hah of said fine to go to the in
former, and shall be subject to Imprisonment
in Jail for not less than six months nor more
than one year, or both fined and imprisoned
in the discretion OF the court.
LAB. Nothing in the next preceding sec
ton shall render it unlawful in any county of
this State, other than Baltimore city, for any
person or persons to make pool or a book
or to bet within the ground of any agricul-
tural association, race course or driving
park, upon the result of any trotting, pacing
or running race of horses which shall bs held
within the same grounds, race couSe or
driving park upon which said person shall
SO make pool or book, or shall so bet upon
the same day on which said race shais2e held
provided, the grounds of such Agricultural
association, race course or driving park be
licensed in the manner set forth in next suc-
ceeding section by the Circuit Court of4the
county within which such grounds or track
may be located
FAC Every person applying for license
as required by the next preceding section
shall file with the Circuit Court of the county
within which the grounds of such agricultural
association, race course or driving pargNtnay
be located, his, her or their petition foreuch
a license, and before granting the sald Ii
censes the said court shall cause notification
of said petition to be published, at the cost
of the applicant, at least once week Tor
three successive weeks, i'll a newspaper pub
lished in the county in which the grounds
aforesaid may be located.
124D. The said petition shall contain q ie
name or names of the applicant or APP 4
cantS; second, the name of the grounds u
which the license is desired; third, a def
description of the place where suf'N
are located; fourth, day or de. "a, aicls
such licenses is desired, and Their 81 be an
neXed to this petition certificate signed by
at least twenty-five respectable qualified
voters of the election district of the county in
which such grounds may be located, praying
the court to grant the said license.
l24E. In such license the name of the
grounds, track or park shall be stated, and
the number of days in which, and the month
thereof, during which betting, pool selling or
bookmaking shall be permitted, shall be
specified, and the said court shall not grant,
in the aggregate, licenses for more than
thirty days i'll any year, nor more than fifteen
days in any one month in any county or this
State, nor for any days whatsoever during
the months of December, January, February
and March; provided, that the Circuit Court
for Baltimore county may grant licenses FOR
not exceeding forty days in any one year.
For every license so granted there shall be
paid the clerk of the court granting Such IL
cense the sum of five dollars for every day for
which such license shall be granted The
said sum to go to the Board of County School
COMMISSIONERS, III WHICH SuCH may NC
located, for the use of public schools thereof;
provided, however, that the provisions of
this act shall not apply to Cecil county; pro
vided, that this Act shall not apply to Wash
ington county, nor shall the provisions of
this Act apply to Anne Arundel county.
Section 2. And be it enacted, That. this
Act shall take effect from the date of its pass
age, but nothing herein contained shall apply
to or affect any civil or criminal proceedings
at the date aforesaid.
Approved, April 18th, 1898.
LLOYD LOWNDES, Governor.
JOHN WRIT RANDALL,
President of the Senate.
LOUIS SHAEFER,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is a
correct copy of an Act of the General As
sembly of Maryland, passed at the January
Session, 1895
MARTIN NJ. HIGGINS,
Secretary of the Senate.
u. HOUSEHOLDER,
Chief Clerk of the House Of Delegates.