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the limits of Dorchester County shall directly or indirectly sell or other-
wise dispose of by way of barter any such liquors, medicated bitters or
alcoholic compounds or cider or fermented wine, or shall therein take
any order or orders therefor, then such person or persons, members of
such firm, and the directors, trustees or managers of such corporation
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in the Cir-
cuit Court for Dorchester County, or before any justice of the peace there-
of, shall for every offense be confined in the Maryland House of Correc-
tion not less than six months nor more than two years, but if any such
liquors, medicated bitters or alcoholic compound or cider or wine be sold
on Sunday or to any minor, the party or parties so offending, on convic-
tion as aforesaid, shall for every offense be confined in the Maryland
House of Correction for not less than eight months. In any indictment,
warrant or other charge the members of the firm shall be designated as
in civil suits, and in the case of a corporation the 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 the proceedings abate, be quashed or set aside under demurrer, be-
cause less than the whole number of the members of such firm or less than
the whole, number of the directors, trustees or managers of such corpora-
tion 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 ar-
rested, be tried. In trials in the circuit court where the cases have been
removed to said court for jury trial, or in trials upon appeals from jus-
tice 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 an information or charge in the
nature of an indictment and the case shall be tried thereunder, and if
any person or persons be charged as the members of any firm or as the
directors or managers of any corporation, and shall deny that they are
members of such firm or are directors, trustees or managers of such cor-
poration, they shall be required to sustain such denials by evidence; pro-
vided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any prose-
cution now depending for violations cf the existing' laws of this State,
or for offenses against the same commit:ed before the passage of this Act.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec:. 214. 1882, ch. 296.

368. The several sections of this subtitle of this Article shall, from
time to time, be given in charge by the circuit court, and their several
provisions carefully explained to the grand jury of the county.

P. L. L.. 1888, .Art. 10, sec. 215. 1882, ch. 296.

369. The court or justice trying any case under this subtitle of this
Article, shall award one-half of the fine imposed to the officer or informer

*Sec. 2, ch. 583, 1910 repeals all laws inconsistent therewith. Ch. 583, 1910, has
apparently superseded or repealed ch. 290. 1890: ch. 460. 1896; chs. 433 and 438,
1898; ch. 190, 1902; chs. 200, 497 and 637, 1904. and ch. 543, 1906.