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room, restaurant, saloon, eating-house, store or pool, bagatelle or billiard
room, or by their agents, waiters or clerks, nor shall manufacturers of
cider or growers of apples, or their agents, sell cider directly or indirectly
in any hotel, inn, bar room, restaurant, saloon, eating-house, or pool, baga-
telle or billiard room.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. S, sec. 182. 1S86, ch. 291. 1888, ch. 532, sec. 182.

248. If any person, house, company, association or body corporate shall
violate any of the provisions of the three preceding sections within the
limits of Cecil County, he or it shall, on each and every conviction there-
of, forfeit and pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more
than six hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, shall be confined in the
Maryland House of Correction for not less than six months nor more than
twelve months, or, in the discretion of the court, forfeit or pay a fine of
not less than one hundred dollars nor more than six hundred dollars and
costs of prosecution, and failing to pay such fine and costs forthwith shall
be sentenced to be confined in the Maryland House of Correction for a
term not less than six months nor more; than twelve months, or until such
fine and costs are paid.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 183. 1886. ch. 291. 1898, ch. 532. sec. 183.

249. Nothing in the four preceding sections shall be construed to pre-
vent the sale of any such liquors by a regular pharmacist or druggist, who
may or shall have obtained a license therefor under the license laws of this
State to a regular practising physician of said county on his personal ap-
plication therefor.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 184. 1886, ch. 291. 1898, ch. 532, sec. 184.

250. In the trial of any person or any house, company, association or
body corporate for a violation of any of the five preceding sections, it
shall be lawful for the State to prove that such person, house, company,
association or body corporate on trial has or have paid (if such be the
case) a special tax to the government of the United States under the in-
ternal revenue laws thereof, upon or for his or its business as brewers or
retail dealers in liquors or wholesale dealers in liquors, or retail dealers in
malt liquors, as the case may be, in Cecil County, for a period of time
within which such violation has occurred, and to prove that he or it has
or have registered his or its business for said period as such dealers with
the collector of internal revenue for the district of which Cecil County
shall form a part, and that he or it made application to said collector to
be so registered; and it shall be lawful for the State in such case to offer
in evidence said internal revenue laws relating to said special taxes; and
the payment of said special tax upon and the registering of his or its said
business may be proved by a certificate of said collector or any of his
deputies, or by the sworn testimony of him or any of them, and a copy of
the application of any person, house, company, association or body corpo-
rate for registry under said revenue laws, made and attested by said col-