742

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Shall not give
away.

Somerset County, and the clerk of the Circuit
Court for Somerset County shall not grant any
license for any such sale or disposal, nor shall any
person give away such liquor, or keep it with the
intent to give away, (except as a medicine by phy-
sicians, or for sacramental purposes,) in any tav-
ern, store, grocery, shop, boarding or victualling
house, or place of public amusements, or any place
connected therewith; nor shall it be lawful to de-
posit any such liquor except in a dwelling house,
or in a church for sacramental purposes, or in some
mechanical, chemical or medicinal establishment
requiring its use, or whilst in storage for trans-
portation.

Boundaries.

140. The boundaries of said district, for the
purposes of the preceding section, shall extend to
the middle of the channel of Tangier Sound and
Manokin river, respectively, whenever they or
either of them shall bind on said district.

Penalty.

141, If any person shall sell or give intoxicat-
ing liquors contrary to the provisions of the one
hundred and thirty-ninth section of this Article,
he shall be fined not less than ten nor more than
fifty dollars for the first offence, and in default of
payment shall be imprisoned not less than five nor
more than twenty days, or both, in the discretion
of the judge or justice before whom the same may
be tried, and for the second offence he shall be
fined not less than twenty nor more than one hun-

May be im-
prisoned.

dred dollars, and shall be imprisoned not less than
five nor more than thirty days, and for the third
offence he shall be fined not less than fifty dollars
and be imprisoned not less than twenty nor more
than fifty days; one-half of the fine imposed by
this section shall go to the informer and the other
half to the Treasury of the State, and the officer
making the arrest of the party convicted shall be
deemed the informer.

Information —
how obtained.

142. Upon complaint or information of any
credible person, on oath, that he knows or has
reason to believe and does believe that any person
is violating the provisions of section one hundred
and thirty-nine of this Article, and that some
person named has knowledge of such offence, any
Justice of the Peace of the district, or of Dames
Quarter district, may summon such person before