The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-10-16

is true copy of an Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed at the
January Session, 1914.
ALBERT J. ALMONEY,
Chief Clerk of the House.
CHAPTER All.
AN ACT to add new section to Ar
ticle II of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "Prince Georges County,"
subtitle, "Bawdy Houses and Houses
of Ill Fame" to be incorporate in
said Article and made section thereof
in it's proper place, and as of its prop
er number.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland. That new
section be and the same is hereby added
to Article II of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title 'tPrince Georges
County," subtitle "Bawdy Houses and
Houses of III Fame" to be Incorporate
ed in said Article of the Code in its
proper place and as of its proper codi
fed number and to read as follows:
Sec. Wherever a house shall be er-
ected, established, continued, main
tanned, used, owned or occupied in
Prince Georges county contrary to the
provisions of Section Is Of Article u
of Poe's. Code of Public General Laws.
title Grimes aud Punishment" sub
| title "Bawdy Houses and Houses OF LII
Fame" not only the occupants and ten,
ants of said houses, but the owners ana
landlords of the same shall be guilty OF
misdemeanor and any landlord or
tenant who shall be guilty of renting
from or to house of the character
mentioned in Section 1S. Article 81,
shall be deemed guilty of misdemean-
| or and the States Attorney for said
| county, upon written complaint of ten
| citizens of said county, shall have serv-
| ed through the sheriff of said county a
three days notice, in writing, notify
ing both the landlord and the tenant
| that the said honse shall be vacated
within three days of the receipt of said
| notice, and if the tenant shal refuse to
vacate said premises, or in the event
that said tenant shall refuse to vacate,
then and in that event, if the landlord
| shall not evict the tenant from the said
| property and have it closed for the
aforesaid immoral purposes, the State's
| Attorney shall Immediately petition the
circuit court for Prince Georges county
| for an order directing the immediate
closing of said houses, and should the
| landlord or tenant refuse to close the
same, the courts as aforesaid, shall i'm
| mediatelY hear and determine the cases,
| and in the event that the trayersers
shall demand jury trial, they shall be
held in bond under penalty of not
| less than One Thousand Dollars for
their appearance at the next Jury term
of said Court, and upon the trial and
| conviction the bonds so filed shall be
| forfeited and a fine in the full penalty
| of the bond shall be imposed and eX-
| ecutiun thereon shall Immediately is
sue, without trial on the civil side of
said court to declare said bond forfeit
| ed, and Immediately sell the property
| Of the bondsmen, which shall carry
| with it the costs of court, and in addi-
ton to the penalty hereby imposed all
| of the personal property contained IN
such houses, shall Immediately be taken
by the sheriff of said county and sold
as an additional penalty for the viola
| tions of this and the preceding Sections.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted,
| That this Act shall take effect from the
date of its passage.
Approved April 10th, 1914,
P.L. GoLDsBCROUGH,
| Governor.
JAMES Nice Triple,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
JESSE D. PRICE,
| President of the Senate.
| Office of the Chief Clerk of the House:
| 1 Hereby Certify, That the aforegoing
is a true copy of an Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed at the
January Session, 1914.
ALBERT J. ALMONEY,
Chief Cle1k of the House