CAROLINE COUNTY. 1645

LIQUOR AND INTOXICATING DRINKS.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 6, sec. 193. 1876, ch. 188.

368. It shall not be lawful for any person or body corporate to sell
spirituous or fermented liquors in any district of Caroline County.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 6, sec. 194. 1876, ch. 188. 1894, ch. 665. 1910, ch. 34 (p. 679).

369. It shall be unlawful for any person or persona, firm or corpora-
tion, directly or indirectly, to sell or otherwise dispose of, by way of
barter, or give away in 'any place of business within Caroline County, any
spirituous, vinous, malt or fermented or other intoxicating liquors, medi-
cated bitters, or any compound of which ailcohol is a chief or principal
ingredient; or the sale of cider of any kind; and it shall also be unlawful
for any person or persons, firm or corporation within the said Caroline
County, to take orders for any such liquors, medicated bitters, or alcoholic
compound, at any time, under any pretenses, in any manner, or for any
purpose whatever; and if any person or persons, firm or corporation within
said Caroline County shall directly or indirectly sell or otherwise dispose
of, by way of barter, any such liquors, medicated bitters or alcoholic com-
pounds, or cider, or shall therein take any order or orders thereof, then
such person or persons, the members of such firm, and directors, trustees
or managers of such corporation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof in the Circuit Court of Caroline County, or before any
justice of the peace thereof, shall for the first offense be confined in the
Maryland House of Correction for not less than one year, and for every
subsequent offense not less than three years; in any indictment, warrant
or other charge, the members of any firm shall be designated as in civil
suits, and, in the case of corporations the directors, trustees or managers
thereof may be simply designated as directors, trustees 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 upon demurrer, because less than the whole number
of the members of any 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, arrested, be tried; in trials of the Circuit Court, where the cases
have been removed to said Court for a jury for trial, or in trials upon
appeals from justices of the peace, instead of proceeding to trial upon the
warrant issued by the justice, the State's Attorney may in every such case,
before the trial begins, prepare and file in the same on information or
charge in the nature of an indictment, and the case shall be tried there-
under; and if any person or persons be charged as the member of any firm,
or as the directors and managers of any corporation, and shall deny that
they are members of such firm, or are directors, trustees or managers of
such corporation, they shall be required to sustain such denial by evidence.