Camp-Meeting

See Woeship. The Massachusetts statute of 18S7, c. 57, which prohibits a person, during the time a camp or field meeting is being held for religious purposes, and within one mile of the place, from maintaining a building for vending provisions or refreshments without permission of the officers of the meeting, and which provides that a person having a regular and established place of business shall not be required to suspend his business, is constitutional,! The Pennsylvania act of May 8, 1878,' prohibits disposing of any kind of merchandise, within one mile of any camp-meeting held for religious worship, under a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment of not more than six months, or both; the act not applying to persons having written pennit from the managers of the meeting, nor to persons regularly engaged in business, nor to farmers who sell the products of their farms upon the same. And the act of March 83, 1876," provides that a judge of the court of common pleas of the particular county may appoint as policemen such persons as the association may designate; each to possess the powers of a constable; to enforce obedience to all reasonable regulations of the association not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the State; to detain offenders twelve hours, if need be, exclusive of Sunday, until they can be carried before the nearest justice of the peace; and to wear a metallic shield with "camp police" and the name of the association inscribed thereon, in plain view — except when employed as detectives.