JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 245

CHAPTER 158.

AN ACT to add additional sub-sections to article
nineteen of the Public Local Laws of Somerset
county, title "License, " and sub-title "Retailers. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the following sub-sections be added, to article nineteen of the Code of Public Local Laws of Somerset county to follow sub-section five, which was added by chapter four hundred and twenty-five of the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to wit:	Sub-sections.
SUB-SECTION 6. On and after the first day of Jan- uary, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, no malt, vinous, spirituous or intoxicating liquors, or any composition of which malt, spirituous, vinous or in- toxicating liquors forms the chief ingredient, shall be sold directly or indirectly, or knowingly per- mitted to be sold, except such as shall be com- pounded to be used as a medicine, or for mechanical purposes, and except homemade wines, homemade cider and homemade beer, within the limits of Prin- cess Anne district, and Dublin district, and Hungary Neck district of Somerset county, being election dis- tricts number one, and number four, and number	Not lawful to sell.
five of said Somerset county; and any person viola- ting the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, in the discretion of the court for the first offence; and for a second offence not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, and shall be imprisoned, in addi- tion to the fine imposed, not less than ten nor more than thirty days in the discretion of the court, and for every subsequent offence the fine and imprison- ment affixed to the last preceding offence shall be doubled; and one half the fines shall go to to the in- former, who shall be certified as such by the grand jury making the presentment, and the other half to the county for the uses of the public schools. SUB-SECTION 7. On the day of the election in No- vember, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, the	Penalty.