2004 ARTICLE 8.

nous, vinous or fermented liquor in the same calendar month. Any cor-
poration, firm, partnership, club or association of persons receiving from
any public or private carrier or carriers any of the above liquors in any
quantity and any person or individual receiving from any public or pri-
vate carrier or carriers more than the above mentioned quantity of spirit-
uous, vinous, fermented, malt or intoxicating liquors in any one calendar
month or for any other purpose 'than the personal use of the consignee,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than fifty dollars
($50) for the first offense and for each and every additional offense not
less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100)
and be imprisoned in the Maryland House of Correction for a term not
exceeding six months. The statement rendered the sheriff and the Clerk
of the Circuit Court for said county as provided for in Section 279 of this
Article by any and all public or private carriers of the delivery of more
than one gallon of spirituous, vinous, fermented or intoxicating liquors, or
any mixture thereof containing alcohol for beverage purposes, or more than
six dozen pints of malt liquor or one-eighth of a barrel of malt liquor as
hereinbefore provided in any one calendar month, or any copy of the
statement filed with the said clerk certified under the hand of the said
clerk with the seal of his office thereto attached, shall be prima, facie evi-
dence of the violation of this Act; provided that any person, firm or cor-
poration who shall aid or abet in any manner or form any one in getting
or obtaining more than the amount of the liquors hereinbefore described
and permitted to be brought into and delivered in the aforesaid county
shall be deemed to have violated the provisions of this Act.

Molinarl v. State, 141 Md. 565. Weisengoff v. State, 143 Md. 638.

1914, ch. 858, sec. 2.

279. It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, steamboat com-
pany, express company or any common or private carrier or carriers to con-
vey, transport or deliver to any depot, wharf or any point or place in Cecil
County any spirituous, vinous, fermented malt or intoxicating liquors
or any mixture thereof containing alcohol for beverage purposes, to any
firm, corporation, club or association of individuals; provided, however,
that it shall be lawful for any of the aforesaid public or private carriers
to carry, transport, bring into aud deliver to an individual over the age
of twenty-one years spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors in any quan-
tity not exceeding one gallon in any one calendar month or malt liquor
not exceeding in quantity six dozen pint bottles or one-eighth of a barrel
in any one calendar month, and it shall be unlawful for the aforesaid
common carrier or carriers to deliver such liquors to any person other
than the consignee thereof or to any person under the age of twenty-one
vears whether consigned to such minor or not. All such railroad com-
panies, steamboat companies, express companies or common or private
carriers doing business within the limits of aforesaid county are hereby
required to keep a book in which shall be entered, immediately upon the