TALBOT COUNTY. 4605

calendar month. Any corporation, firm, partnership, club or association
of persons receiving from any public or private carrier or carriers any
of the above liquors in any quantity and any person or individual receiv-
ing from any public or private carrier or carriers more than the above
mentioned quantity of spirituous, vinous, fermented, malt, or intoxicat-
ing liquors in any one calendar month or for any other purpose than the
personal use of the consignee, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
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 Maryland House of
Correction for a term not exceeding six months. The statement ren-
dered the Sheriff and the Clerk of the Circuit Court for any of the said
Counties as provided for in Section 312 of this Article by any and all
public or private carriers of the delivery of more than one gallon of spir-
ituous, 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 pro-
vided 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.
See sec. 316.

1914, ch. 831, sec. 2.

312. 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 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 companies or com-
mon or private carriers doing business within the limits of any of the