Questions-What is required of a married man as to the support of his wife? In case he abandons her, what provision is made by law as to her support? What rights has a married woman concerning property and the making of contracts? With reference to suits? For what is the husband not liable? What is said of her right to be surety for another? Of her liability for goods furnished to her for the family? Of her right to insure the life of herself or husband? What mortgages are invalid without her signature? What property of her hus band may she recover by suit? What is said of dower? Of an allowance out of the personal property of a deceased husband?

CHAPTER LIII.

THE INTERNAL POLICE OF THE STATE.

OF DISORDERLY PERSONS—WHO REQUIRED TO GIVE SECURITY FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR.

All persons who run away, or threaten to run away, who, being of sufficient ability, refuse or neglect to support their families, or leave their wives or children a burden on the public; all persons pretending to tell fortunes, or where or with whom lost or stolen goods may be found; all common prostitutes; all keepers of bawdy houses, or houses for the resort of prostitutes; all drunkards, tipplers, gamesters, or other disorderly persons; all persons who have no visible calling or business to maintain themselves by, or who do, for the most part, support themselves by gaming; all jugglers, common showmen, and mountebanks, who exhibit or perform for profit, any puppet shows, wire or rope dancing, or other idle shows, acts or feats; all persons who keep in any highway, or any public place, any gaming table, wheel of fortune, box, machine,

instrument, or device for the purpose of gaming; all persons who go about with such table, wheel of fortune, box, machine, instrument, or device, exhibiting tricks or gaming therewith; all persons who play in the public streets or highways, with cards, dice, or any instrument or device for gaming; and all vagrants shall be deemed disorderly persons, and may be required to furnish security for their good behavior, for not less than sixty-five days, nor more than one year thereafter; and in case of failure to furnish such security, shall be committed to jail, until discharged according to law. Such persons may be discharged from confinement on furnishing the security required; or, the Circuit Court may discharge such person if, in the judgment of the Court, the circumstances of the case warrant it, without such security; or may authorize the Superintendents of the Poor to bind out, as servants or apprentices, such disorderly persons as are under twenty-one years of age, until they reach the age of twenty-one years. The Circuit Court may also order disorderly persons to be kept at hard labor for any time not exceeding six months.

Questions-Who are deemed disorderly persons? What may be required of them? In case of a failure to furnish security for good behavior, what may be done with them? What authority has the Circuit Court in such cases?

CHAPTER LIV.

OF THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH

PENALTIES THEREFOR.

GAMING AND THE

The law provides that any person who, on the first day of the week, shall engage in any business or labor, except works

of necessity or charity, or who shall attend any dancing or at any public diversion, show or entertainment, or take part in any sport, game or play, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding ten dollars, for each offense.

Hotel-keepers shall not, under a penalty of five dollars, permit persons, other than their guests, to remain upon their premises on the Sabbath.

No civil suits can be commenced, nor can courts be held on the Sabbath.

Persons who intentionally interrupt or disturb any assembly of people met for the purpose of worshiping God, shall be punished by a fine of not less than two nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not, exceeding thirty days.

Agreements made on the Sabbath are void. Persons who conscientiously believe that the seventh day of the week (Saturday) ought to be observed as the Sabbath, and actually refrain from secular business and labor on that day, shall not be liable to the penalties prescribed for performing secular business or labor on the first day of the week, provided they disturb no other persons.

Gaming.-If any person, by playing at any game of chance, or by betting, lose to any person so betting or playing, any money or goods, he may recover the same, or the value thereof, in an action for that purpose. If the person losing the money or goods does not, within three months after his loss, sue for the same, the winner is subject to a fine not exceeding three times the value of the money or goods lost.

If any person shall win or lose at any time or sitting, by gaming or betting on the hands or sides of such as are gaming, any money or goods of the value of five dollars or more, whether the same be paid over or not, shall forfeit and pay three times the value of such money or goods. All notes,

bonds, mortgages or conveyances in which the consideration, in whole or in part, is for money or goods won by gaming or betting, are void, except as to those who hold or claim under them in good faith, and without notice of the illegality of such contract or conveyance.

Persons who keep, or knowingly permit to be kept, in any house, building, yard or garden which he occupies, any table for the purpose of playing at billiards for hire, gain or reward, or permit persons to resort to such place for the purpose of playing at billiards, nine-pins or other like game, cards or dice, or any other unlawful game, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and give security that he will not be guilty of any offense against the chapter of the statute to compel the observance of the Sabbath and to prevent gaming.

Persons playing at such games, at such tables or alleys, thereby forfeit a sum not less than two nor more than ten dollars for each offense.

Questions What acts are prohibited on the first day of the week? What is said of hotel keepers? What of agreements made on the Sabbath? What exception as to labor on the Sabbath is made? In case money or goods shall be lost by playing at games of chance or betting, how may the same be recovered? How and under what circumstances may the winner or loser be punished? What is said of the validity of securities or conveyances given for moneys or goods won by betting or at games of chance?

Whenever persons, traveling with a team, meet each other on any road or bridge, each person is required to drive to the right of the middle of the traveled part of the road or bridge. A failure to do this, subjects the person so failing, to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars, and to the payment of whatever damages a party may sustain by reason of such failure.

No hack or stage proprietor is allowed to keep a driver who is in the habit of using intoxicating liquors to excess; and for so doing he is liable to a penalty of five dollars a day for the time he retains him in his service.

If such driver is intoxicated while driving a coach, stage, hack or omnibus, it is the duty of the proprietor to discharge him as soon as notified of the fact by any passenger, under oath, and in writing, who witnessed the same; and a failure to discharge such driver, subjects the proprietor to a penalty of five dollars per day so long as he shall keep him.

If a driver of a carriage for the conveyance of passengers for hire, intentionally causes or permits his horses to run away, whether any person be in the carriage or not, he is liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the Court. If such driver shall leave his horses while attached to a carriage in or on which any passenger may be at the time, without some suitable person to take