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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Proviso.

against any one or more citizens of said counties for selling spirituous liquors, in violation of the Local Option Law passed January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter four hundred and fifty-three, for Dorchester and Caroline counties; provided always that the party or parties thus indicted, shall have obtained license to sell spirituous liquors from the clerks of said courts, respectively, previous to the adoption, by the people, of the said Local Option Law, and ceased to sell as soon as the constitutionality of said law was affirmed by the Court of Appeals of this State, and sold no spirituous liquors thereafter.

Be construed,

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing in the foregoing section of this act shall be so construed as in any manner to mitigate the offence, or to relieve from the provisions of the Local Option Law for said counties, any one or more persons indicted in the said Circuit Courts of Dorchester and Caroline counties, or who may hereafter be indicted for violating the Local Option Law, and who continued the sale of spirituous liquors after the decision of the Court of Appeals in favor of the constitutionality of said law, or who may have commenced to sell spirituous liquors since the aforesaid decision of the said Court of Appeals.

In force.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 23, 1876.