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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1866
Volume 107, Page 933   View pdf image (33K)
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1866.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES 359
Section 59. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of Anne
Arundel county and his deputies, and of the constables of the
city of Annapolis, to exercise the utmost vigilance in order to
detect all the violations of this article in relation to the sale
of liquors to minors and others, as forbidden by section 55,
and to report immediately any such violation, to the Judge
of the Circuit court for said county, who shall forthwith di-
rect the offending parties to be brought before him, and shall
require him to give adequate security for his appearance at
the next term of said court, and shall commit such party to
jail in default of such security; and if any sheriff or consta-
ble shall neglect to report to the judge any such violation of
the said section, as soon as the same shall come to Ins know-
ledge, he shall be liable to a penalty of fitly dollars for each
case of such neglect, to be recovered by any person in the
name of the State, by action of debt in the said court.
Section 60. All fines imposed and collected under the pro-
visions of section 55, of this article, shall go, one halt' to the
informer, (who is hereby made a competent witness) and the
other hall' shall be divided equally between the State Attor-
ney and the Sheriff, or other officer who shall have made
report in the case to the Judge, under 59th section of this
article.
Section 3. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take ef-
fect from. the date of its passage.
Mr. McCauley submitted the following amendment to the
amendment:
That the clerk of the Circuit court for Anne Arundel coun-
ty, shall not grant a license to any person to sell spirituous
or fermented liquors of any kind at any time or place, within
the city of Annapolis, nor within five miles of said city,
and that any person selling or bartering any kind of intoxi-
cating drinks, whether of original manufacture or of a mix-
ed character, within the above described limits, shall on con-
viction thereof be subject ts the fines and penalties presented
by the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, for selling
spirituous and fermented liquors without license.
Which was rejected.
The question recurring upon the adoption of the amend-
ment submitted by Mr. Miller, of Anne Arundel;
It was determined in the affirmative.
The bill as amended was then read the third time and pass-
ed by yeas and nays as follow:

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