2308 ARTICLE 10.

into and delivered in any of the aforesaid counties shall be deemed to
have violated the provisions of this Act.

1914, ch. 831, sec. 2.

371. It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, steamboat com-
pany, express company or any common or private carrier or carriers to
convey, transport or deliver to any depot, wharf or any point or place in
Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot, Dorchester, Somerset, Worcester, Kent
and Wicomico Counties any spirituous, vinous, fermented, malt or in-
toxicating liquors or any mixture thereof containing alcohol for beverage
purposes, to any firm, corporation, club or association of individuals; pro-
vided, however, that it shall be lawful for any of the aforesaid public or
private carriers to carry, transport, bring into and deliver to an individual
over the age of twenty-one years spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors
in any quantity 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 years 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 any of the aforesaid counties
are hereby required to keep a book in which shall be entered, immediately
upon the receipt thereof, the name and address of every person to whom
such liquors are shipped, the amount and kind received, the date when
delivered, and by whom and to whom delivered and the name of the firm,
corporation or individual shipping such liquors, and the statement that
such liquors are for personal use only. After such record shall be a blank
space on which the consignee shall be required to sign his name and ad-
dress in person to such record before the delivery of such liquors to such
consignee, which book shall be open to the inspection of the public at any
time during the business hours of the company. If the consignee shall be
unable to write his name, he may sign by mark in the presence of a wit-
ness, and such witness shall sign his name on such record after the word
"Witness." Such book shall constitute prima, facie evidence of the facts
therein stated and be admissible as evidence in any court or tribunal hav-
ing jurisdiction or in any manner empowered with the enforcement of the
provisions of this Act. On the last day of each month such railroad com-
pany, steamboat company, express company, common or private carriers
shall file with the clerks of the circuit court and the sheriffs of the respec-
tive counties aforesaid in which any such liquor has been shipped a tran-
script of the records of said book for that calendar month, which tran-
script shall be filed and preserved by the aforesaid sheriffs and clerks as
a public document. No package, parcel, or container of spirituous, vin-
ous, fermented, malt or intoxicating liquors, or any mixture thereof con-
taining alcohol for beverage purposes, shall be delivered by any common
or private carrier to any person in any of the aforesaid counties unless