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and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to the same fine as the physi-
cian who shall violate the same, one-half of the said fine to be paid to the
informer and the residue to the Board of School Commissioners of said
county for the benefit of the public schools thereof; and said violators shall
be committed to the county jail until such fine and the costs of prosecution
are paid; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit a
sale by a pharmacist or druggist in case extreme illness, when delay may
be dangerous to the patient.

1902, ch. 13, sec. 193C.

283. Any person who shall desire to obtain a license to sell the afore-
said liquors as a pharmacist and druggist under the provisions of this
Act shall file with the clerk of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's county
a petition addressed to the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's county setting
forth that he proposes to engage in said business in said district number
five or Queenstown district; that he is fitted by training and experience
to conduct the same, and that he is not about engaging therein with a view
to evade the provisions of this Act, or any part of it; which said petition
shall be accompanied by a certificate, filed therewith, of twenty-four free-
holders of said district that they are well acquainted with said petitioner
and that they know him to be well fitted by training and experience to
conduct such business, and that from their knowledge of his character
they are satisfied that he will not abuse his license, if granted, to evade
the provisions of this law; and upon such petition and certificate being
filed the said clerk shall give ten days' notice by two insertions in some
newspaper published in Queen Anne's county of such petition, the cost
of which notice, together with all fees incurred under such petition, shall
before such publication be paid by the petitioner, and if within said ten
days no objections shall be filed to the issuing of such license the said
clerk shall at once issue the same, endorsed "Pharmacist and Druggist
License" over his official signature, upon the petitioner paying the usual
license charges therefor; but if within the said ten days any objection is
filed, either to the fitness of such petitioner by experience and training
to conduct such business, or to his character as a man fit to be trusted to
conduct the same, the said clerk shall forthwith lodge all the papers in
said case with the judges of the aforesaid Court, or any one of them who
shall appoint an early day for hearing the case, and shall direct the clerk
to issue subpoenas for such witnesses as either the petitioner or objector
may desire, and shall hear and determine the case as to them or him shall
seem right, and shall award to the successful party such costs in the case
as may have arisen since the publication of the notice as aforesaid; and
the said clerk shall issue or withhold said license according to the order
of the judges or judge passed after hearing said petition and objection;
every petition filed under this section shall be verified by the oath of the
petitioner taken before the said clerk, and certified by him on said peti-
tion or on a paper annexed thereto; and any false swearing as to any mat-
ters required herein to be set forth in any such petition shall be held to