4444 ARTICLE 20.

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 com-
panies or common 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 ad-
dress of every person to whom such liquors are shipped, the amount and
kind received, the date when delivered, and by whom and to whom de-
livered 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 inspection 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 con-
stitute 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, ex-
press company, common or private carriers shall file with the Clerks of
the Circuit 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, 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 rea-
sonable precaution to be assured of the identity of such person before
delivery.