TALBOT COUNTY. 4603

ment to the purchase of goods, wares or merchandise any spirituous or
fermented liquors, lager beer, medicated bitters producing intoxication,
cider or any compound in which alcohol is a chief or principal ingredient,
or any other intoxicating liquors within the limits of Talbot county, and
it shall also be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation,
captain or other officer or employee of any trading vessel or boat sailing
or engaged in business in the waters of Talbot county, to solicit or receive
orders for the delivery of any intoxicating liquors as before enumerated,
within said Talbot county, at any time or under any pretense whatever,
in any manner or for any purpose whatever, and if any person or persons,
firm or corporation, captain, officer or employee of any boat aforesaid
within said Talbot county, shall directly or indirectly sell, barter or other-
wise dispose of any such liquors, medicated bitters, alcoholic compound
or cider or therein solicit or receive, take any order or orders, then such
person or persons and the members of such firms the directors, trustees
or managers of such corporation, shall have authorized, required or di-
rected such person or persons, or such captain, officer or employee, to take,
solicit or receive any order or orders as aforesaid or to sell, barter or
otherwise dispose of any such liquors or other compounds as aforesaid,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to the fines and penalties,
hereinafter imposed.

1912, ch. 526, sec. 125.

308. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions or any
provision of Section 307 of this subtitle shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall, upon conviction thereof in the Circuit Court for Talbot county,
or before any justice of the peace thereof, shall, for the first offense, pay a
fine of not less than fifty ($50) dollars nor more than three hundred
($300) dollars or be confined in the Maryland House of Correction for
not less than one year, or both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion
of the Court, and for every subsequent offense shall be confined in the
Maryland House of Correction for not less than three years, and shall pay
a fine not exceeding one thousand ($1,000) dollars, and shall pay the
costs of prosecution and of any indictment, warrant or other charge, the
members of any firm shall be designated as in civil suits and in case of
corporation the directors, trustees or managers thereof may be simply
designated as directors, trustees or managers of such corporation, and in
no case against the members of any firm or against the directors, trustees
or managers of any corporation shall said indictment, warrant or charge
be abated, quashed or set aside upon demurrer because less than the whole
number of members of the firm or of the directors, trustees, or managers
of such corporation have been charged or arrested, but such as are charged
and have been arrested may be tried and those who have not been charged
or those who being charged have not been arrested, may, upon being
charged and arrested, be tried, and if any person or persons be charged
as the members of any firm or as the directors and managers of any cor-
poration, and shall deny that they are members of such firm or directors,