KENT COUNTY. 3223

1890, ch. 385, subsec. A.

255. It shall not be lawful for any corporation, heretofore formed, or
hereafter to be formed in Kent county, under the provisions of the general
laws of the State, for the creation and maintenance of educational, moral,
scientific, literary, dramatic, musical, social, benevolent or beneficial so-
cieties or associations of all descriptions, which corporation shall give, sell,
furnish or dispense to the members thereof any spirituous or fermented
liquors or alcoholic bitters, or any intoxicating drinks of any kind or
description, to admit to membership any person under twenty-one years
of age, or any person not a bona fide resident of Kent county, and upon
the conviction in the circuit court of Kent county of any corporation for
having violated any provisions of this act, the said court shall pass an
order forfeiting the charter of said corporation.

1890, ch. 385, subsec. B.

256. In any proceeding, suit or prosecution against any such corpora-
tion, or against any agent, employee or member thereof, for the violation
of any of the provisions of this act, or for the violation of any of the
provisions of the acts of assembly in reference to the traffic in intoxicating
drinks in Kent county, the plaintiff petitioner, or the State shall have the
right to call as a witness any member, manager, agent or employee of such
corporation; and upon the failure or refusal of any such person to answer
any proper, pertinent or relevant question, the court shall commit such
person to the county jail for a period of not less than thirty days; pro-
vided, that any such member, manager, agent or employee testifying in
answer to such questions, shall never be prosecuted for any offense, crime
or misdemeanor, for which his evidence might tend to criminate him.

1914, ch. 831, sec. 1.

257. It shall be unlawful for any corporation, firm, partnership, club
or association of individuals to have shipped into Caroline, Queen Anne's,*
Talbot, Dorchester, Somerset, Worcester, Kent and Wicomico Counties
any spirituous, vinous, fermented, malt or intoxicating liquors, or any
mixture thereof containing alcohol for beverage purposes, in any quantity
whatever; but it shall be lawful for any person or individual over the
age of twenty-one years to have shipped or bring into any one of the
said counties spirituous, vinous, or fermented liquors in any quantity
not to exceed one gallon in any one calendar month, or any malt liquor
in any quantity not to exceed six dozen pint bottles or one-eighth barrel
in any one calendar month, such liquor to be for personal use only of
such persons, but such persons shall not be allowed to have shipped or
bring both the malt liquor and the spirituous, vinous or fermented
liquor in the same calendar month. Any corporation, 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

*Ch. 148 of the Acts of 1916 repealed ch. 831 of the Acts of 1914 in so far as
it applied to Talbot and Queen Anne's Counties.