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the time intervening between the date of such bond and the adjournment
of the next Court; and upon his failure to give such bond, the justice shall
commit him to jail until such bond be given or until he be discharged
therefrom by due process of law.
1917 (Special Session), oh. 13, sec. 13.
715. Whenever intoxicating liquors shall be seized in any room, build-
ing or place which has been searched under the provisions of this Act,
the finding of such liquors in excess of the quantity permitted by this Act
in such room of a United States retail liquor dealer's tax receipt therein
shall be prima facie evidence of the unlawful selling and keeping and
storing for sale of the same by the person or persons occupying such prem-
ises, or by any person named in any such United States tax receipt posted
in such room or his associates, agents or employees thereunder, and the pro-
prietor or other persons in charge of the premises where such intoxicating
liquors were found, or who is so named in such United States tax receipt,
and his associates shall be subject to trial on the charge of selling or keep-
ing or storing for sale unlawfully such intoxicating liquors, and upon his
conviction the intoxicating liquors found upon said premises shall at once
be publicly destroyed by some responsible person to be appointed by the
Court.
1917 (Special Session), ch. 13, sec. 14.
716. The payment of the special tax of liquor dealers to the United
States for any person or persons other than druggists within the limits of
Prince George's County, shall be prima facie evidence that such person
or persons are engaged in keeping, selling, offering and exposing for sale,
intoxicating liquors contrary to the provisions of this Act and a certificate
from the collector of internal revenue, his agents, clerks, or deputies show-
ing the payment of such tax and the name or names of persons or persons,
if any associated with the person to whom such tax receipt is issued shall
be sufficient evidence of the payment of such tax, and of the association
of such persons for the selling, keeping, offering and exposing for sale of
liquors contrary to the provisions of this Act in all trials or legal inquiries.
1917 (Special Session), ch. 13, sec. 15.
717. The Sheriff of Prince George's County, or one of his deputies, or
one of the constables of said county or any officer having constabulary pow-
ers shall have reasonable cause to believe that any persons are handling,
carrying or bringing into Prince George's County spirituous liquors in
quantity exceeding one quart or malt liquors in quantity exceeding twelve
pint bottles for any purpose whatsoever contrary to the provisions of this
Act, it shall be the duty of said Sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable or officer
to arrest such person, which arrest may be made without warrant, if the
offense is committed in the presence of such officer, and seize his baggage
and take him before some justice of the peace in and for said county, and
if the arrest was without warrant to make against him the charge of pos-
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