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3966 ARTICLE 17.
1917 (Special Session), ch. 13, sec. 5.
707. Every person who shall directly or indirectly keep or maintain
by himself or by associating with others, or who shall in any manner aid,
assist or abet in keeping or maintaining any club house, or other place in
which any intoxicating liquor is received or kept for the purpose of use,
gift, barter, or sale, or for distribution or division among the members of
any club or association by any means whatsoever, or who shall maintain
what is commonly known as the "locker system" or other device for evad-
ing the provisions of this Act, and every person who shall use, barter, sell
or give away, or assist or abet in bartering, selling or giving away any
liquors so received or kept, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof be subject to the penalties prescribed in Section 708
of this Article; and in all cases the members, shareholders, associates or
employees in any club or association mentioned in this Section shall be
competent witnesses to prove any violations of the provisions of this sec-
tion of this Act, or of any fact tending thereto; and no person shall be
excused from testifying as to any offense committed by another against
any of the provisions of this Act by reason of his testimony tending to
criminate himself, but the testimony given by such person shall in no case
be used against him.
The keeping or giving away of intoxicating liquors, or any schemes or
devices whatever, to evade the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed as
unlawful selling within the provisions of this Act.
1917 (Special Session), oh. 13, sec. 6.
708. If any person or persons, house, company, association, club or
body corporate, shall violate any of the provisions of the preceding sections
within the limits of Prince George's County, he, she, it or they shall, upon
conviction thereof, for the first offense forfeit and pay a fine of not less
than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned in the
County Jail or the Maryland House of Correction for not less than thirty
days nor more than six months; or both so fined and imprisoned in the dis-
cretion of the Court. And upon conviction thereof for the second and each
subsequent violation, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor
more than five hundred dollars and imprisoned in the County Jail or con-
fined in the Maryland House of Correction for not less than three months
nor more than one year.
1917 (Special Session), ch. 13, sec. 7.
709. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons within the limits
of Prince George's County to advertise or give notice by signs, bill boards
or otherwise for himself or another of the sale or keeping for sale of alco-
holic liquors or to circulate or distribute any price-lists, or order blanks
advertising liquors or to publish any newspaper, magazine, periodical or
other written or printed papers in which such advertisements or notices
are given or to permit any such notices or advertisements of intoxicating
liquors (including billboards) to be posted upon his premises or premises
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