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1914, ch. 325, sec. 5.

127. It shall be unlawful for any licensee under this Act to sell to
any minor or habitual drunkard, and to keep any gambling device, slot
machines, faro tables, sweat cloths, German hazard, crap or any other
games of any character or to permit any card playing upon the premises.
And it shall also be unlawful for any licensee under this Act to sell liquors
on the Sabbath Day, commonly called Sunday, or any Election Day, nor
shall any liquors be sold by any licensee between the hours of 11 P. M.
and 6 o'clock A. M. Any person violating any of the provisions of this
section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon trial and con-
viction shall be subjected to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more
than two hundred and fifty dollars, or may be confined in the County Jail
or the House of Correction for not less than sixty days; and the Court in
its discretion may suppress the license of any licensee, and no license shall
be issued either to the person or to the place wherein the law has been vio-
lated for a period of six months, and upon the suppressing of said license,
there shall be no return of the license money to the licensee.*

1914, ch. 348, sec. 1.

128. It shall be unlawful for the Clerk of the Circuit Court of St.
Mary's County to issue licenses to any person or persons, firm or corpora-
tion to sell spirituous, fermented or intoxicating liquors or lager beer
within a radius of two miles from white public school No. 1 in the eighth
election district of St. Mary's County, Maryland. If any person or per-
sons, house, company, association or body corporate shall sell directly or
indirectly at any place or give away at his or its place of business any
spirituous or fermented liquors or lager beer or intoxicating liquors of
any kind within the limits of the said area or district in St. Mary's Coun-
ty he or it shall upon conviction thereof forfeit and pay on the first con-
viction a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dol-
lars and the costs of prosecution or imprisonment in the county jail for
not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days or both in the discretion
of the court or the justice of the peace trying such case and on the second
and each and every subsequent conviction not less than fifty dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars and in addition to such fine be imprisoned
in the Maryland House of Correction for not less than six months nor
more than one year in the discretion of the court or justice of the peace
trying such case.

1914, ch. 348, sec. 2.

129. All prosecutions for the violations of the preceding Section of
this Act which are hereby declared to be criminal offenses may be either
upon presentment and indictment by the Grand Jury of St. Mary's County
or trial before a justice of the peace residing in said county who shall have
jurisdiction original and concurrent with the Circuit Court of said county;

*Sec. 6, ch. 325, 1914, repealed all laws Inconsistent therewith.
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