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5036 ARTICLE 23,
ciation of persons receiving from any public or private carrier or car-
riers any of the above liquors in any quantity and any person or indi-
vidual receiving from any public or private carrier or carriers more than
the above mentioned quantity of spirituous, vinous, fermented, malt or
intoxicating liquors in any one calendar month or for any other purpose
than the personal use of the consignee, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, 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 Mary-
land House of Correction for a term not exceeding six months. The state-
ment rendered the sheriff and the clerk of the circuit court for any of the
said counties as provided for in Section 131 of this Article by any and all.
public or private carriers of the delivery of more than one gallon of spirit-
uous, 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 mouth, 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.
1914, ch. 831, sec. 2,
131. 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; pro-
vided, however, that it shall be lawful for any of the aforesaid public or
private carriers to carry, transport, bring into and deliver to an individual
over the age of twenty-one years spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors,
in any quantity not exceeding one gallon in any one calendar mouth 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 earners 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 com-
panies, steamboat companies, express companies or common or private
carriers doing business within the limits of any of the aforesaid counties
are hereby required to keep a book in which shall be entered, immediately
upon the receipt thereof, the name and address of every person to whom.
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