CECIL COUNTY. 2001

applicant, and said clerk shall also be entitled to the usual commissions
for collecting said license fees, which shall be retained by him from the
amounts collected by him for the county and for the towns respectively.

1898, ch. 532, sec. 415.

263. All licenses issued under this subtitle shall expire on the first day
of May next thereafter, but licenses may be issued for a shorter period
than one year upon the payment of a proportionate part of the license
fee hereinbefore provided for; licenses issued under this Act shall be
transferable only when the transferee shall duly establish his qualifica-
tions for the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors, as though an orig-
inal applicant for license therefor under the provisions of this subtitle.

1898, ch. 532, sec. 416.

264. No pharmacist or druggist in Cecil County shall sell directly or
indirectly any spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters, or in-
toxicating drinks of any kind, except upon the written bona fide prescrip-
tion of a regular practicing physician of Cecil County, whose name shall
be signed thereto, and all such prescriptions shall be filed and kept by
such pharmacist or druggist for one year, and no prescription shall answer
for more than purchase, and no physician shall make or sign such pre-
scription unless the person for whom it is made is actually sick, or unless
such liquor is required by any person as a medicine.

1898, ch. 532, sec. 417.

265. Any pharmacist, druggist or physician who shall violate the pro-
visions of the preceding section shall upon indictment and conviction
thereof be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dol-
lars, and failing to pay such fine and costs of prosecution forthwith shall
be sentenced to be confined in the Maryland House of Correction for a
term not exceeling six months; provided, however, that nothing herein
shall be construed to prohibit the sale or gift of liquors to be used in cases
of extreme illness, when delay might be dangerous to such sick person.

1898, ch. 532, sec. 418.

266. Any person who shall sell directly or indirectly at any place in
Cecil County, or give away directly or indirectly at the place of business
of such person, or any other person, any spirituous of fermented liquor
without having obtained a license as required by this sub-title, upon in-
dictment and conviction thereof, be fined not less than two hundred dol-
lars nor more than five hundred dollars, and failing to pay such fine and
costs of prosecution forthwith shall be sentenced to be confined in the
Maryland House of Correction for a term of not less than six months
nor more than one year.

1898, ch. 532, sec. 418A.

267. No person obtaining a license under this subtitle shall knowingly
permit minors to enter the bar room where liquor is sold, unless said