PRINCE GEORGE S COUNTY. 3959

or alcoholic bitters or intoxicating drinks of any kind, beer, ale, schnapps,
gin, hard cider or pear cider, ambrosia or any beverage intoxicating in its
ingredients, at any place or places whatever within the limits of the said
town of Laurel.

1906, ch. 170, sec- 6. 1912 Code, sec. 429.

690. If any person or persons, house, company, association, club or
body corporate, his, her, its or their agents, officers, clerks or servants shall
violate the provisions of the preceding section within the limits of said
town, he, she, it or they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and he,
she, it or they shall on each and every conviction thereof forfeit and pay a
fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars and
the costs of prosecution, or be confined in the Maryland House of Cor-
rection for not less than two months nor more than twelve months, in the
discretion of the Court or justice of the peace, before whom the case may
be tried, for each and every offense, and all fines imposed, and collected
shall be paid over to the Mayor and City Council of Laurel for the use

of said town.

1906, ch. 170, sec. 7. 1912 Code, sec. 430.

691. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the com-
pounding of liquors in a prescription or the sale of liquor by pharmacists

or druggists upon a written and bona fide prescription of a regularly
practising physician of medicine, whose name must be signed thereto, and
each prescription shall be numbered and filed in regular order, and no
prescription shall serve for more than one purchase; no physician shall
give such prescription unless in the honest opinion of said physician the
patient is sick and needs it as medicine, and any physician who shall
under any other circumstances give such a prescription and any pharma-
cist or druggist who shall under any other circumstances sell or barter
any spirituous or fermented liquors shall each be liable to the penalties
imposed by the preceding section 690, and no druggist or pharmacist shall

sell or barter or keep for sale or barter any intoxicating liquors except for
such prescriptions.

1906, oh. 170, sec. 8. 1912 Code, sec. 431.

692. All prosecutions for violations of the preceding section of this
Act may be either upon presentment and indictment or by trial before a
justice of the peace in and for Prince George's county who shall have
jurisdiction, original and concurrent with the Circuit Court for Prince
George's County; and any justice of the peace for said county shall have
power to issue all process and to do all acts which may be necessary to the

exercise of his jurisdiction, as now prescribed by law, and to commit all
offenders till fines and costs are paid; and any person or persons who shall
be brought before any justice of the peace, charged with and convicted of a
violation of any provision or provisions of this Act, who shall feel aggrieved
by the judgment of said justice, may pray an appeal to the Circuit Court

for Prince George's County within ten days, and either party be entitled