The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-10-02
CHAPTER AL.

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 I'll Fame" to be incorporate l in
said Article and made a section thereof
in its proper place, and as of its prop
er number.
SEC. /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland. That a 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 incorporat-
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 house shall be err
ected, established continued, main
tanned, used, owned or occupied in
Prince Georges county contrary to the
provisions of Section 19 Of Article 81
of Poe's Code of Public General Laws.
title "Crimes aud Punishment" sub
title "Bawdy Houses and Houses of LII
Fame" not only the occupants and ten
ants of said houses, but the owners and
| landlords of the same shall be guilty OF
| misdemeanor and any landlord or
tenant who shall be guilty of renting
| from or to a 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 sha 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 States
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
medately hear and determine the cases,
and in the event that the traversers
shall demand jury trial, they shall be
held in bond under penalty of not
less than One Thousand Dollars for
of>said Court, and upon the trial and
conviction the bonds SO filed shall be
forfeited and fine in the full penalty
of the bond shall be imposed and cx-
ecution 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
tons 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:
l 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 Clerk of the House
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