JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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CHAPTER 273.

AN ACT to repeal the act of eighteen hundred and

sixty-seven, chapter three hundred and ninety of

the Code of Public Local Laws of Anne Arundel

county, relating to the sale of spirituous and fer-

mented liquors to minors in the City of Annapolis

and within five miles thereof, and to re-enact with

amendments, section fifty-five.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section fifty-five of the Code of

Public Local Laws of Anne Arundel county, relating

Repealed and

to the sale of spirituous and fermented liquors to

enacted.

minors in the City of Annapolis, and within tive

miles thereof, as amended by the act of eighteen hun-

dred and sixty-seven, chapter three hundred and

ninety, be and the same is hereby repealed and the

following enacted in lieu thereof:

SEC. 55. It shall not be lawful for any person,

whether licensed to sell spirituous liquors or not to sell,

Not lawful.

dispose of, barter or give, directly or indirectly, within

the corporate limits of the City of Annapolis, or

within five miles thereof, any spirituous or fermented

liquors, or cordials of any kind, or in any quantity

whatever, to any youth or minor under the age of

twenty-one years, without the written order or con-

sent of the parent or guardian of such minor; nor

to any midshipman or student connected with or

attached to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, or

under orders to join or leave the said Academy; nor

to any seaman, ordinary seaman, landsmen, marine

or boy, or any employee of the navy, without a

written order from a commissioned officer of the

Whithout
written order.

navy, (not excluding hired laborers); nor to any

student of St. John's College, without the written

order of some professor of said College; and any

person violating the provisions of this section shall

he liable to indictment in the Circuit Court for Anne

Arundel county, and upon conviction thereof, shall

be fined a sum of not less than fifty dollars, and not

more than four hundred dollars, and shall be con-

Penalty.

fined in jail until the said fine and cost of prosecution