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trustees or managers of such corporation, they shall be required to sustain
such denial by evidence.

State v. Easton Social Club, 73 Md. 97.

1912, ch. 520, sec. 126.

309. Nothing contained herein in Sections 307 or 308 shall be con-
strued to prevent the compounding and sale of intoxicating liquors for
medicinal purposes by regular licensed pharmacists or druggists upon the
written subscription* of a regular practicing physician, whose name in full
shall be signed thereto, with the name of the person to whom the prescrip-
tion is given and the date of the same plainly placed thereon. Every
prescription when filled or compounded shall be filed and kept for one year
from the date of filing the same and shall be open for the inspection of the
grand jury and the State's attorney for Talbot county at any time. No
physician shall write, sign or make any such prescription unless the intoxi-
cant prescribed by it shall be actually necessary as a medicine, and the
fact that such intoxicating liquor is thus needed shall be stated in the
prescription.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 127. 1898, ch. 156. 1902, chs. 84 and 265. 1906, ch. 716.

1912, ch. 620, sec. 127.

310. Any druggist compounding and selling any intoxicating liquors
in violation of section 309, and any physician writing, signing or making
any prescription for intoxicating liquors in violation of said section 309,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be
fined for each offense not less than fifty ($50) dollars nor more than
three hundred ($300) dollars, together with the costs of proecution, and
be imprisoned in the Maryland House of Correction for not less than
three months nor more than twelve months. +

Cohen v. Jarrett, 42 Md. 571. Parker v. State, 95 Md. 199.

1914, ch. 831, sec. 1.

311. It shall be unlawful for any corporation, firm, partnership, club
or association of individuals to have shipped 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 containing alcohol for beverage purposes, in any quantity
whatever; but it shall be lawful for any person or individual over the
age of twenty-one years to have shipped or bring into any one of the said
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

*"Prescription" evidently intended.

+'Sec. 2, ch. 520, 1912, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.