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or any mixture thereof containing alcohol for beverage purposes, shall
be delivered by any common or private carrier to any person in any of
the aforesaid counties unless there shall be plainly and visibly labeled
or stenciled thereupon the following: the name and address of the con-
signor, the name and address of the consignee, the kind and quantity of
the liquors contained therein, and that the liquors are only for the per-
sonal use of the consignee. And any employee or agent of any express
company, railroad company, steamboat company, or any common or pri-
vate carrier failing or refusing to comply with any of the provisions of
this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a
fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) or more than one hundred dol-
lars ($100) for the first offense and any subsequent offense shall be pun-
ished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) and not more
than five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment in the Maryland
House of Correction for a term not exceeding six months, or by both fine
and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Provided, that if the
said carrier, or its agent, does not know the identity of the person who
may call for the said liquors, the said carrier or its agent shall use reason-
able precaution to be assured of the identity of such person before delivery.

1914, ch. 831, sec. 3.

298. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to carry,
bring or have brought into Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot, Dorchester,
Somerset, Worcester, Kent and Wicomico Counties any spirituous, vinous,
fermented, malt or intoxicating liquors, or any mixture thereof, contain-
ing alcohol for beverage purposes, except as hereinbefore provided, and
any delivery by any carrier or its agent or any receipt by any person,
other than is provided for in this Act, shall be deemed to have been done
with intent to violate the law of said counties relating to or prohibiting
the sale of such liquors. Any person, firm or corporation who violates
the provisions of this section upon trial and conviction therefor shall be
subject to the fines and penalties hereinbefore provided in Section 297 of
this Article.

1914, ch. 831, sec. 4. 1918, ch. 446.

299. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to apply to the shipment
or delivery to duly licensed pharmacists or druggists to be used in com-
pliance with existing laws and to hospitals in said counties, of spirituous
or vinous liquors and alcohol; nor to the delivery to churches or proper
officers thereof of wine in unbroken packages for sacramental purposes.

1914, ch. 831, sec. 5.

300. All prosecutions for violations of the provisions of the preceding
sections of this Act, which are hereby declared to be criminal offenses,
may be either upon presentment and indictment, or by trial before a jus-
tice of the peace in the county in which the offense is committed, and
jurisdiction original and concurrent with the Circuit Courts for the afore-
said counties is hereby given in such cases to the justices of the peace in