WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4893

such knowledge as a reasonable man would have under ordinary circum-
stances from the habits, appearance and general reputation of the habitual
drunkard.

1908, ch. 380, sec. 325A (p. 1047).

644. No licensee under this Act shall sell or furnish to any person
intoxicating, spirituous or fermented liquors or lager beer on any day on
which an election is now or may hereafter be required to be held, except
that said licensees in cases of municipal elections shall only be required
to close their places of business in towns where said elections are held,
or on the Lord's day, commonly called Sunday, nor on Christmas day,
except that proprietors of hotels may furnish such spirituous, fermented
and intoxicating liquors and lager beer to bona fide guests of their hotels,
on Christmas day, nor except in a hotel shall conduct his business in any
place to which an entrance shall be allowed other than from a public
traveled street or highway, and the word alley in this Act shall not be
construed to be a public traveled street or highway.

1908, ch. 380, sec. 325C (p. 1048).

645. Any person who shall hereafter be convicted of selling intoxi-
cating, spirituous or fermented liquors or lager beer, or any admixture
thereof in Washington county, Maryland, without a license first having
been obtained therefor under the provisions of this Act, shall be sentenced
to pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five
hundred dollars, or undergo improvement* in the county jail for not less
than three months, nor more than twelve months, or both fine and im-
prisonment, in the discretion of the court or justice of the peace trying
the case.

Reynolds v. State, 141 Md. 637. McCoy v. State, 157 Md. 373.

1908, ch. 380. sec. 325D (p. 1048).

646. Any person under the age of twenty-one years, who shall enter a
saloon or other place where intoxicating, spirituous or fermented liquors
or lager beer are sold, and shall ask, demand or offer to purchase of the
owner or proprietor thereof, or his agent, any intoxicating, spirituous or
fermented liquors or lager beer kept for sale therein or who shall know-
ingly and wilfully make any misrepresentations or false statement as to
his age, and by reason of such misrepresentation or false statement shall
obtain any spirituous or fermented liquors or lager beer from any such
person or persons as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars,
or imprisoned in the jail of Washington county for not more than thirty
days, or both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court or justice
of the peace trying the case; provided, that the testimony given by any
minor or person under twenty-one years of age in the prosecution of any
person knowingly or wilfully selling or furnishing any spirituous, fer-

*"Imprisonment" evidently intended.