56 ANNE ARXJNDEL COUNTY. [ART. 2.

24. All the pains, penalties and forfeitures imposed in this law,
may be recovered by action of debt, or by indictment in the Cir-
cuit Court for said county, for the use of the alms-house.

25. All sheriffs, bailiffs, constables and other officers, shall aid
and assist the said trustees, and the officers by them appointed,
in the discharge of their respective duties.

26. If any person shall be sued or prosecuted for any thing
done in pursuance of this law, or any thing therein contained,
he may plead the general issue and give the special matter in
evidence; and if upon trial verdict shall be found for the defend-
ant, or the plaintiff be non-suit or discontinue, the defendant
shall recover treble costs, and if the plaintiff shall be unable to
pay them, unless the plaintiff shall give security for the costs to
be approved by the court, they shall be paid by the attorney who
brought the suit.

27. No person shall sell any distilled or fermented liquors
within one mile of the said alms-house, and any person so offend-
ing shall be liable to indictment in the Circuit Court for said
county, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five
dollars, at the discretion of the court.

28. The clerk of the Circuit Court for said county shall not
grant any license for the sale of ardent spirits or fermented'
liquors to any person within one mile of said alms-house.

29. If any person shall, without the consent in writing of the
trustees or overseer of the alms-house, sell any distilled or fer-
mented liquors or exchange the same for any commodity what-
ever to any pauper in said alms-house, he shall upon conviction
be fined not less than five dollars at the discretion of the court
for each offence, and forfeit his license.

ANNAPOLIS.

30. The citizens of Annapolis qualified to vote for members of
the General Assembly shall, on the first Monday of April annu-
ally, elect a mayor, recorder and five aldermen, who shall con-
stitute the corporation of said city.

81. The corporation shall appoint three persons judges of said
election, any two of whom shall be competent to hold such elec-