EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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forth, be and the same is hereby enacted; the same to be

applicable to said Neck Election District, or Election Dis-

trict No. 8, of Dorchester County.

E. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or

corporation, directly or indirectly to sell or otherwise dis-

Forbidding the
disposing of

pose of by way of barter within Neck Election District, or

liquors in an

Election District No. 8, of Dorchester County, any spirituous,

election dis-
trict.

vinous, malt, fermented or other intoxicating liquors or cider

of any kind, medicated bitters or any compound of which

alcohol is the chief or principal ingredient; and it shall also

be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation

within said Neck Election District, or Election District No. 8,

to take orders for any such liquors, medicated bitters of alco-

holic compound at any time, under any pretense, in any man-

ner, or for any purpose whatever, and if any person or persons,

firm or corporation within the said Neck Election District, or

Election District No. 8, shall directly or indirectly sell or

otherwise dispose of by way of barter any such liquors, medi-

cated bitters or alcoholic compounds or cider, or shall therein

take any order or orders therefor, then such person or persons,

member of such firm, and the directors, trustees or managers

of such corporation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and

Misdemeanor

on conviction thereof in the Circuit Court for Dorchester

and penalty
for violation

County, or before any justice of the peace thereof, shall

thereof.

for every offense be confined in the Maryland House of Cor-

rection not less than three nor more than six months, but if

any such liquors, medicated bitters or alcoholic compound

or cider be sold on Sunday or to any minor, the party or

parties so offending, on conviction as aforesaid, shall for every

offense be confined in the Maryland House of Correction for

not less than six months. In any indictment, warrant or other

charge the members of the firm shall be designated as in

civil suits, and in the case of corporation the directors, trus-

tees or managers of such corporation, and in no case against

the members of any firm, or against the directors, trustees

or managers of any corporation shall abate, be quashed or

set aside under demurrer, because less than the whole number

of the members of such firm or less than the whole number

of the directors, trustees or managers of such corporation
have been charged or arrested, but such as are charged and

Relating to
corporations,
etc.

have been arrested, may be tried, and those who have not

been charged, or those who, being charged, have not been

arrested may, upon be charged and arrested, be tried, in trials

in the Circuit Court where the cases have been removed to

said Courts for jury trial, or in trials upon appeals from jus-

tice of the peace, instead of proceeding to trial upon the