Note 696 — Chapter XVIII · PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY

Up to fourteen for the girl the penalty is death or imprisonment for life or for any definite term from eighteen months to twenty-one years: cf. Pub. Gen. Laws of Md. (1888), I, 533, 534; with Laws (1890), c. 410, p. 447. By the act of 1898, c. 218, abuse of a girl between fourteen and sixteen is only a misdemeanor punishable by not more than two years in the house of correction or by a fine not to exceed $500: Prentiss's Supp. to Code (1898), 195.