4246 ARTICLE 18.

the amount of the liquors hereinbefore described and permitted to be
brought into and delivered in any of the aforesaid counties shall be deemed
to have violated the provisions of this Act.
See sec. 301.

1914, ch. 831, sec. 2.

297. It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, steamboat com-
pany, express company or any common or private carrier or carriers to<
convey, transport or deliver to any depot, wharf or any point or place in
Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot, Dorchester, Somerset, Worcester, Kent
and Wicomico Counties any spirituous, vinous, fermented, malt or in-
toxicating liquors or any mixture thereof containing alcohol for beverage
purposes, to any firm, corporation, club or association of individuals;
provided, however, that it shall be lawful for any of the aforesaid public
or private carriers to carry, transport, bring into and deliver to an -indi-
vidual over the age of twenty-one years spirituous, vinous, or fermented
liquors in any quantity not exceeding one gallon in any one calendar
month or malt liquor not exceeding in quantity six dozen pint bottles or
one-eighth of a barrel in any one calendar month, and it shall be unlawful
for the aforesaid common carrier or carriers to deliver such liquors to
any person other than the consignee thereof or to any person under the
age of twenty-one years whether consigned to such minor or not. All
such railroad companies, steamboat companies, express companies or com-
mon or private carriers doing business within the limits of any of the-
aforesaid counties are hereby required to keep a book in which shall be
entered, immediately upon the receipt thereof, the name and address of
every person to whom such liquors are shipped, the amount and kind
received, the date when delivered, and by whom and to whom 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 inspec-
tion 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 constitute 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, express com-
pany, common or private carriers shall file with the Clerks of the Cir-
cuit 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,