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such liquors are shipped, the amount and kind received, the date when
delivered, and by whom and to whom delivered and the name of the firm,
corporation or individual shipping such liquors, and the statement that
such liquors are for personal use only. After such record shall be a blank
space on which the consignee shall be required to sign his name and ad-
dress in person to such record before the delivery of such liquors to such
consignee, which book shall be open to the inspection of the public at any
time during the business hours of the company. If the consignee shall be
unable to write his name, he may sign by mark in the presence of a wit-
ness, and such witness shall sign his name on such record after the word
''Witness." Such book shall constitute prima facie evidence of the facts
therein stated and be admissible as evidence in any court or tribunal hav-
ing jurisdiction or in any manner empowered with the enforcement of the
provisions of this Act. On the last day of each month such railroad com-
pany, steamboat company, express company, common or private carriers
shall file with the clerks of the circuit court and the sheriffs of the respec-
tive counties aforesaid in which any such liquor has been shipped a tran-
script of the records of said book for that calendar month, which tran-
script shall be filed and preserved by the aforesaid sheriffs and clerks as
a public document. No package, parcel, or container of spirituous, vin-
ous, fermented, malt or intoxicating liquors, or any mixture thereof con-
taining alcohol for beverage purposes, shall be delivered by any common
or private carrier to any person in any of the aforesaid counties unless
there shall be plainly and visibly labeled or stenciled thereupon the fol-
lowing: the name and address of the consignor, the name and address of
the consignee, the kind and quantity of the liquors contained therein, and
that the liquors are only for the personal use of the consignee. And any
employee or agent of any express company, railroad company, steamboat
company, or any common or private carrier failing or refusing to comply
with any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor and be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) or
more than one hundred dollars ($100) for the first offense and any subse-
quent offense shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dol-
lars ($100) and not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or by impris-
onment in the Maryland House of Correction for a term not exceeding
six months, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the
court. Provided, that if the said carrier, or its agent, does not know the
identity of the person who may call for the said liquors, the said carrier
or its agent shall use reasonable precaution to be assured of the identity
of such person before delivery.

1914, ch. 831, sec. 3.

132. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to carry,
bring or have brought into Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot, Dorchester,
Somerset, Worcester, Kent and Wicomico Counties any spirituous, vin-
ous, fermented, malt or intoxicating liquors, or any mixture thereof con-
taining alcohol for beverage purposes, except as hereinbefore provided,
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