PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 735

civil suits and in case of corporation the directors, trustees or
managers thereof may be simply designated as 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 said indictment, warrant or
charge be abated, quashed or set aside upon demurrer because
less than the whole number of members of the firm or of the
directors, trustees, or managers of such corporation have been
charged or arrested, but such as are charged and have been
arrested may be tried and those who have not been charged
or those who being charged have not been arrested, .may, upon
being charged and arrested, be tried, and if any person or
persons be charged as the members of any firm or as the direc-
tors and managers of any corporation, and shall deny that they
are members of such firm or directors, trustees or managers of
such corporation, they shall be required to sustain such denial
by evidence.

SEC. 126. Nothing contained herein in sections 124 or 125
shall be construed to prevent the compounding and sale of
intoxicating liquors for medicinal purposes by regular licensed
pharmacists or druggists upon the written subscription of a reg-
ular practicing physician, whose name in full shall be signed
thereto, with the name of the person to whom the prescription
is given and the date of the same plainly placed thereon. Every
prescription when filled or compounded shall be filed and kept
for one year from the date of filing the same and shall be open
for the inspection of the grand jury and the State's attorney
for Talbot county at any time. No physician shall write, sign
or make any such prescription unless the intoxicant prescribed
by it shall be actually necessary as a medicine, and the fact that
such intoxicating liquor is thus needed shall be stated in the
prescription.

SEC. 127. Any druggist compounding and selling any intox-
icating liquors in violation of section 126, and any physician
writing, signing or making any prescription for intoxicating
liquors in violation of said section 126, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined for
each offense not less than fifty ($50) dollars nor more than
three hundred ($300) dollars, together with the costs of prose-
cution, and be imprisoned in the Maryland House of Correc-
tion for not lees than three months nor more than twelve months.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this
act are hereby repealed.