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rant and enter the place with such officer and give information and assist-
ance to such officer in searching such place for such intoxicating liquor.
(I) Liquor seized as hereinbefore provided, and the means used for the
sale of the same, shall not be taken from the custody of the officer by a
writ of replevin or other process while the proceedings herein provided
are pending; and final judgment of conviction in such proceedings shall
be in all cases a bar to all suits for the recovery of any liquor seized or
the value of the same, or for damages alleged to arise by reason of the
seizing and detention thereof. (K) When any prosecution is commenced
before any justice of the peace or court for a violation of this Act, and
the liquor seized under this section is to be used as evidence in such trial,
the hearing must take place in not more than thirty days if such court
is then in session, and if it be not in session, within thirty days from the
date when it is next in session. If at the time appointed for trial the
returns have not been properly made, or for other sufficient cause, the
trial may be postponed to a further date not more than fifteen days beyond
said thirty days. (L) The word "Liquor," when used in this section,
unless the same be inconsistent with the context, shall be construed to
include the vessels containing the same; the phrase "means used for the

sale of the same," shall include all furniture, implements or parapher-
nalia of a barroom or drinking saloon or any part of same, and any
United States internal revenue tax receipt effective for the period of time
covering the alleged offense.

1908, ch. 139, sec. 12 (p. 1091).

129. Nothing contained in this Act shall in any manner affect any
case or cases now pending or any violations of the law which have hereto-
fore occurred, but that all such cases and violations shall be prosecuted to

conclusion as if the law hereby repealed were still in force.

1914, ch. 831, sec. 1.

130. 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 quan-
tity 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
persons, 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 calendar month. Any corporation, firm, partnership, club or asso-

*Ch. 148 of the Acts of 1916, repealed ch. 831 of the Acts of 1914 in so far as it
applied to Talbot and Queen Anne's Counties.