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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 address 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 witness, and such witness shall sign
his name on such record after the word "Witness." Such book shall con-
stitute prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated and be admissible
as evidence in any court or tribunal having jurisdiction or in any manner
empowered with the enforcement of the provisions of this Act. On the
last day of each month such railroad company, steamboat company, ex-
press company, common or private carriers shall file with the Clerks of
the Circuit Court and the sheriffs of the respective counties aforesaid in
which any such liquor has been shipped a transcript of the records of said
book for that calendar month, which transcript shall be filed and preserved
by the aforesaid sheriffs and clerks as a public document. No package,
parcel, or container of spirituous, vinous, fermented, malt or intoxicating
liquors, or any mixture thereof containing alcohol for beverage purposes,
shall be delivered by any common or private carrier to any person in any
of the aforesaid counties unless there shall be plainly and visibly labeled
or stenciled thereupon the following: the name and address of the con-
signor, the name and address of the consignee, the kind and quantity of
the liquors contained therein, and that the liquors are only for the per-
sonal use of the consignee. And any employee or agent of any express
company, railroad company, steamboat company, or any common or pri-
vate carrier failing or refusing to comply with any of the provisions of
this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a
fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) or more than one hundred dol-
lars ($100) for the first offense and any subsequent offense shall be pun-
ished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) and not more
than five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment in the Maryland
House of Correction for a term not exceeding six months, or by both fine
and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Provided, that if the
said carrier, or its agent, does not know the identity of the person who
may call for the said liquors, the said carrier or its agent shall use reas-
sonable precaution to be assured of the identity of such person before
delivery.

1914, ch. 831, sec. 3.

259. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to carrv,
bring or have brought 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 contain-
ing alcohol for beverage purposes, except as hereinbefore provided, and
any delivery by any carrier or its agent or any receipt by any person,
other than is provided for in this Act, shall be deemed to have been done