SOMERSET COUNTY. 4443

counties spirituous, vinous, or fermented liquors in any quantity not to
exceed one gallon in any one calendar month, or any malt liquor in any
quantity not to exceed six dozen pint bottles or one-eighth barrel in any
one calendar month, such liquor to be for personal use only of such per-
sons, but such persons shall not be allowed to have shipped or bring both
the malt liquor and the spirituous, vinous or fermented liquor in the
same calendar month. Any corporation, firm, partnership, club or asso-
ciation of persons receiving from any public or private carrier or car-
riers any of the above liquors in any quantity and any person or indi-
vidual receiving from any public or private carrier or carriers more than
the above mentioned quantity of spirituous, vinous, fermented, malt, or
intoxicating liquors in any one calendar month or for any other purpose
than the personal use of the consignee, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten
dollars ($10) nor more than fifty dollars ($50) for the first offense and
for each and every additional offense not less than fifty dollars ($50)
nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) and be imprisoned in the Mary-
land House of Correction for a term not exceeding six months. The state-
ment rendered the Sheriff and the Clerk of the Circuit Court for any of
the said Counties as provided for in Section 225 of this Article by any
and all public or private carriers of the delivery of more than one gallon
of spirituous, vinous, fermented or intoxicating liquors, or any mixture
thereof containing alcohol for beverage purposes, or more than six dozen
pints of malt liquor or one-eighth of a barrel of malt liquor as hereinbefore
provided in any one calendar month, or any copy of the statement filed
with the said Clerk certified under the hand of the said Clerk with the
seal of his office thereto attached, shall be prima facie evidence of the
violation of this Act; provided that any person, firm or corporation who
shall aid or abet in any manner or form any one in getting or obtaining
more than 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.

1914, ch. 831, sec. 2.

225. 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