Penalties for offending. Sec. 24. Any person offending against any provision of the foregoing section of this act, shall forfeit a sųm not exceeding twenty-five dollars, nor less than two dollars, which shall be recovered by complaint of any person before any justice of the peace of the town, or adjoining town to that in which the offense was committed.
Prohibits sale of liquors or goods within two miles of camp meeting. Sec. 25. No person shall keep any shop, tent, booth, wagon, carriage, for the sale of, or shall sell, give, or expose to sale, any spirituous or intoxicating liquors, goods or merchandise of any kind, within two miles of any public assembly, camp, or grove meeting, convened for the purpose of religious worship; but this shall bet be construed to prevent any person from selling merchandize at the shop or store where he usually transacts business, nor from selling liquors in any place where he shall have received a license therefor before the appointment of such religious meeting; nor to prevent any pedler from selling his goods to any person at the usual place of business or residence of such person.
Penalties for offending. Sec. 26. If any person shall be guilty of a breach of the preceding section, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, he shall be fined not exceeding thirty dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail for any term not exceeding thirty days, or may be sentenced to both said punishments.
Prohibits horse racing, gambling, &c.; penalty. Sec. 27. If any person shall be guilty of noisy, rude, or indecent behavior, of exhibiting shows or plays, or promoting or engaging in horse racing or gambling, at or near any such religious meeting, so as to interrupt or disturb the same, or shall at any religious meeting of the citizens of this territory, maliciously cut or otherwise injure or destroy any harness, or tents, or other property belonging to any tent holder or other person, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, he shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars, or if the offense be of an aggravated nature, he may be held to recognize with sufficient sureties to appear at the district court next to be holden in the same county, and upon conviction before such court, he shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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