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202 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. XXVII
Fraud—Upon Turnpikes.
209.
This section is a prohibition against travelers using a turnpike until
they approach a toll gate, and then going around or avoiding the gate so
as to evade payment. The using of a private road which connects with
a county road cannot be said to be done with an intent to defraud the
turnpike company. Hagerstown Turnpike Co. v. Evers, 130 Md. 19.
Fraud—Wood Alcohol.
211.
The contention in a civil suit that the defendants had violated this sec-
tion, overruled where there was no evidence that they mixed, made, manu-
factured or compounded the whiskey sold the plaintiff, or that they intro-
duced wood alcohol into it. Flaccomio v. Eysink, 129 Md. 380.
Gaming.
217.
This section is valid, regardless of whether sections 218 to 221 are
valid or not; question of validity of sections 218 to 221 not passed on.
When sections of a statute are severable and independent. Object of
statutes dealing with horse-racing. Agri. Soc. Montgomery County v.
State, 130 Md. 476.
218.
See notes to section 217.
219.*
See notes to section 217.
220.*
See notes to section 217.
221.*
See notes to section 217.
Graft—Prevention of.
1918, ch. 425.
229A. No person or corporation engaged in the business of building
greenhouse structures, selling fertilizers, insecticides, coal, soil, flower
pots, trees, shrubs, bulbs, plants, garden and farm implements, seeds
or any other commodities, necessary for the formation and maintenance
of public parks and grounds, cemeteries, baseball and athletic club
grounds, golf club grounds, country club grounds, hotel grounds, and
country estates, shall pay or cause to be paid, either directly or indi-
rectly to any superintendent, manager, gardener, foreman, or other
employee, money or other consideration, whatsoever as a present, reward,
inducement, bonus or commission on any bill of purchase, of the fore-
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*The act of 1918, chapter 121, repeals this and the two following sections so
far as the same apply to Prince George's County.
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