1762 ARTICLE 7.
The acceptance, receiving, carrying, transferring, handling, delivery or
distribution of intoxicating- liquor under false or fictitious names in any
Anti-Saloon Territory shall work a forfeiture of such liquor.
It is further expressly provided that no provision of this section is
intended or shall be construed to violate or be in conflict with any pro-
vision of the Constitution and Laws of the United States, respecting inter-
state commerce, but this section and all parts of the same are intended to
prohibit the acceptance, receiving, carrying, transferring, handling, de-
livery or distribution, as herein provided, of intoxicating liquor to such
extent only as the same is not expressly permitted under the Constitution
and Laws of the United States.
If any provision of this section shall be held to be void or unconstitu-
tional it is hereby provided, that all other portions of same which are not
expressly held to be void or unconstitutional shall continue in full force
and .effect.
Crown v. State, 130 Md. 364. Poisel v. Cash, 130 Md. 373.
1916, ch. 340, sec. 20A.
134. Whenever the Sheriff of Carroll County, or one of his deputies,
or one of the constables of Carroll County shall have reasonable cause to
believe that any person is handling, carrying or bringing into Carroll
County, while the same shall be Anti-Saloon Territory, intoxicating liquor,
regardless of the name by which the same may be called, in quantity
exceeding one gallon, for his own personal use or for any purpose whatso-
ever, it shall be the duty of said sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable, with-
out a warrant first having been issued, to search the personal baggage of
such person believed to be handling, carrying or bringing into Carroll
County, while the same is Anti-Saloon Territory, such intoxicating liquor,
and if any person be found, to be handling, bringing or carrying into
Carroll County, while the same is Anti-Saloon Territory any intoxicating
liquor exceeding in quantity one gallon, it shall be the duty of said sheriff,
deputy sheriff or constable to arrest such person with or without a warrant
and take him before some Justice of the Peace in and for Carroll County,
having criminal jurisdiction, and make against him the charge of violating
the provisions of this Act.
1914, ch. 492, sec. 21.
135. All prosecutions for violations of this Act, which are hereby de-
clared to be misdemeanors, may be either upon presentment or indict-
ment, or by trial before a justice of the peace having criminal jurisdic-
tion, who shall have jurisdiction original and concurrent with the Circuit
Court of Carroll County; and the said justice shall have the power to
issue all process, and to do all acts which may be necessary to the exercise
of his said jurisdiction, and may try and determine all cases whereof he
may have jurisdiction, and may pronounce judgment and sentence therein
in the same manner and to the same extent as the Circuit Court of Carroll
County could do in such cases, if such cases were tried before said court
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