KENT COUNTY. 3221

1896, ch. 78, sec. 149.

249. No person, company, association or body corporate shall receive,
keep or have in possession, or allow his, their or its place of business to
be a depository for spirituous or fermented liquor or alcoholic bitters or
intoxicating drinks to be used by others.

1896, ch. 78, sec. 150.

250. Any justice of the peace of Kent county, shall have jurisdiction
and authority to receive information, under oath, of any violation of
sections 248 or 249 of this law, and to take recognizances and bail, in a
sum of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, or to commit to the
county jail in default of bail until the end of the session of the next suc-
ceeding Grand Jury of said Kent county.

1896, ch. 78, sec. 151.

251. If any person, company, association or body corporate shall vio-
late any of the provisions of sections 248 or 249 within the limits of Kent
county, he, they or it shall, on indictment and conviction in the Circuit
Court for Kent County, for each offense, forfeit and pay a fine of not
less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and
costs of prosecution, and on failure to pay forthwith such fine and costs
shall be confined in the Maryland House of Correction for not less than
six nor more than twelve months in the discretion of the court, or until
such fine and costs are paid, one-half of all such fines shall, when col-
lected, be paid to the informer, and the other half to the Board of School
Commissioners of Kent county for the use of the public schools therein.

1896, ch. 78, sec. 151A.

252. The certificate of the Collector of Internal Revenue of the United
States for the district in which Kent county is situated, stating that the
person, company, association or body corporate charged with violating
sections 248 or 249 of this subtitle, has paid to the United States or its
duly authorized agent an internal revenue tax for the sale of liquor or
alcoholic bitters in Kent county, or if it shall be shown by competent testi-
mony that such violator had exhibited in his place of business the United
States Government receipt or stamp for special tax on the business of
liquor dealer, issued for a period within which such violation occurred,
such certificate or testimony shall be taken and received by the justice
of the peace who issued the writ of arrest and by the court in which the
party is tried, as prima facie evidence of intention to violate said section
of this law.

1914, ch. 414.

253. It shall not be lawful for any person, house, corporation, company
or association, to solicit, take or receive, at any place within the limits of
Kent County, any order, or orders, for the purchase or delivery of any
spirituous, fermented or intoxicating liquors of any origin whatever, or
alcoholic bitters, and any person, house, corporation, company, or associa-