The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-10-09
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AN ACT to add new section to Ar
ticle II of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "Prnce Georges County"
subtitle, "Bawdy Houses and Houses
of Ill Fame" to be incorporate 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 new
section be and the same is hereby added
to Article II of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title prince 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 plumber and to read as follows:
SEC Wherever house shall be er-
ected, established, continued, main
tanned, used, owned or occupied in
Prince Georges county contrary to the
provisions of Section 10 Of Article 81
of Poe's Code of Public General Laws.
title "Crimes aud Punishment" sub
title "Bawdy Houses and Houses of III
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 IS, 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 inn
| mediately hear and determine the cases,
and in the event that the traversers
shall demand jury trial, they shall be
| held in a bond under a 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 fine in the full penalty
of the bond shall be imposed and cx-
ecutiun thereon shall Immediately is
sue, without a 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:
I Hereby Certify, That the aforegoing
is true copy of an Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed at the
January Session, 1914.
ALBERT J. ALMONEY,
Chief Clelk of the House