The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-03-05
NOW A LAW.
CECIL COUNTY ANTI RACE
TRACK GAMBLING BILL.
Full Text of the Law That Will Go
Into Effect on the Fourth Day of
April Next

Among the Acts of the General Assembly
nesday, and thus become IL law, was the bill
prohibiting race-track gambling in Cecil
county, and accordingly this county will be
relieved from the race track nuisance after
April 4, when the law law goes into effect.
The new law is as follows:
ACT to add under a new subtitle to be
designated "Crimes and Punishments"
new section to Article 8 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title Cecil County,"
prohibiting gambling and the abetting
thereof in Cecil county; said new section
to be designated as Section AIS.
SECTION /. BE it enacted by The General
A$sen,bly Of Mmyiand, That new subtitle
to be designated Grimes and Punishmentsn
and Il new section hereunder to be desig-
mated as Section 4l5, be and the same are
hereby added to Article 8, of the Code Of
Public Local Laws, title Cecil County," as
follows:
''CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTs"
AIS. 1t shall be unlawful for any person or
corporation or corporations to bet wager or
gamble, in any manner or by any means. or
make, sell or buy books or pools or any
interest therein, within the limits of Cecil
county. on the result of any trottinc, pacing
or running race of horses or other beasts, or
of bind tod or
paced or held within or without the limits of
Cecil county aforesaid, or to establish, keep,
rent, use or occupy. or knowingly suffer to
be used, kept. rented or occupied, any house,
building, vessel, grounds or place, or portion
of any house, building, vessel, grounds or
place, on land or water, within the limits Of
Cecil county aforesaid, for the purpose Of
betting, wagering or gambling, i'll any
manner or by any means, or making, selling
or buying booHs or po1ls, therein or thereon
upon the result Of any race or contest afore-
said, or within the limits of Cecil,
whatsoever, to receive, become the de-
pository of record or register or forward,
or purport or pretend to forward, any money.
bet, wager. thing or consideration of value,
to be bet, Gamhlcd or wagcred, in any manner
or by any mean. or devices whatsoever, upon
the result of any race or contest aforesaid, or
to aid, assist or abet, in any mannor or by
any means whatsoever, within the limits Of
Cecil county aforesaid, in any of the acts
forbidden by the provisions Of this section;
any and every person or corporation violating
any Of the provisions Of this section shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof. shall be subject to IL fine
of not less than two hundred dollars and not
exceeding five hundred dollars, one-half
thereof to 20 to the informer and the other
half thereof 10 go to the Board of County
school Commissioners of Cecil county, for the
use of the public schools thereof, or i'm
prisonment in the county Jail for a period OF
not less than six months, nor more than one
year, or both fine and Imprisonment in the
discretion of the Court.
SECTION 2 That all acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with this act, 80 far as they apply
to Cecil county, be and the same are hereby
repealed.
SECTION ,. That this act shall take efrec
from the fourth day of April 1898, but moth
ing herein contained shall apply to or alfec
any civil or criminal proceeding pending n
TIE date aforesaid.