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or alcoholic bitters, directly or indirectly, at any place within the limits
of Garrett county.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 12, sec. 140. 1886, ch. 241.

335. If any person, house, company, association or body politic shall
sell, directly or indirectly, any spirituous or fermented liquors or alco-
holic bitters, within the limits of said county, he, they or it, shall, on con-
viction thereof, forfeit and pay a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor
more than three hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, or instead of
such fine, be imprisoned in the county jail for sixty days, or until dis-
charged by due process of law, or both, in the discretion of the court.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 12, sec. 141. 1886, ch. 241.

336. Nothing contained in the two preceding sections shall be con-
strued to prevent the compounding or sale of any such liquors for medic-
inal purposes by a pharmacist and druggist, who shall or may obtain a
license under the license laws of this State, for the prosecution of the
business of pharmacy, and upon a written bona fide prescription of a reg-
ular practicing physician, whose name shall be signed thereto; and all
such prescriptions shall be filed and kept by such pharmacist and drug-
gist; and no prescription shall serve for more than one purchase; but no
physician shall make or sign any such prescription unless the person for
whom it is made is actually sick, and such liquor is deemed by said phy-
sician necessary as a medicine; any physician who shall make or sign any
prescription for liquor, except as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a
violation of said sections, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less
than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for the first offense,
and not less than two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars
for each subsequent offence; and if the buyer shall obtain a prescription
by misrepresentation, he shall likewise be deemed guilty of a violation
of said sections, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to the same
fine as a physician who shall violate the same; one-half of said fine shall
be paid to the informer, and the residue to the board of school commis-
sioners of said county for the benefit of the public schools thereof; and
said violators shall be committed to the county jail of said county until
such fine and costs are paid; but nothing herein shall be construed to pro-
hibit a sale by a pharmacist or druggist, in case of extreme illness, where
delay may be dangerous to the patient.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 12, 3ec. 142. 1886, ch. 241.

337. All prosecutions for violations of this sub-title of this Article,
may either be upon presentment and indictment, or by trial before a jus-
tice of the peace, who shall have jurisdiction, original and concurrent,
with the circuit court for said county; and the said justice shall have
power to issue 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 sen-
tence to the same extent and manner as the circuit court for said county