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Penalty for
violating.
Additional
penalties.
Duty of
Sheriff or
Constable.
Proviso.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
disposing of any kind of spirituous or fermented
liquors, or any other articles of traffic, or shall sell,
give, barter, or otherwise dispose of any spirituous
or fermented liquors, or any other articles of traffic,
within two miles of any festival or picnic held in
Worcester county, for the benefit of Churches or
Schools, during the time of holding any festival or
picnic at such place, such person or persons on con-
viction before a Justice of the Peace of Worcester
county, for the first offence shall be fined not less
than five nor more than twenty dollars, or be com-
mitted to jail for a period of thirty days, in default
of payment of fine and costs, and for the second
offence, shall be fined as aforesaid, and be impris-
oned. not less than ten, nor more than thirty days.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That if any person shall
commit an offence against the provisions of the pre-
ceding section, he shall, in addition to the penalties
therein mentioned, forfeit all such spirituous or fer-
mented liquors and other articles of traffic, and all the
chests and other things containing the same, belonging
to and in the possession of the person so offending,
together with such booth, stall, tent, carriage, boat,
vessel, vehicle, or other contrivance or tiling pre-
pared and used in violation of said section, and it
shall be the duty of the Sheriff or any Constable of
Worcester county, if he sees any person violating
the preceding section, to arrest the offender, and
carry him before a Justice of the Peace of said
, county; the Sheriff or Constable, when he arrests
the offender, shall seize the property hereby declared
to be forfeited, or shall seize the same on a warrant
against the offender, if such offender cannot be
found; and the Justice of the Peace before whom
such offender is convicted, or before whom the war-
rant is returned that the offender cannot be found,
shall enter judgment of condemnation against such
property, and issue a fieri facias for the sale thereof;
provided, the person who has been returned not found,
and whose property has been condemed in his ab-
sence, may appear at any time before the sale of the
property and have the case tried, as if he had
appeared at the return of the warrant.
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