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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 re-
spective counties aforesaid in which any such liquor has been shipped a
transcript of the records of said book for that calendar month, which
transcript shall be filed and preserved by the aforesaid sheriffs and clerks as
a public document. No package, parcel, or container of spirituous, vinous,
fermented, malt or intoxicating liquors, or any mixture thereof containing
alcohol for beverage purposes, shall be delivered by any common or pri-
vate carrier to any person in any of the aforesaid counties unless there-
shall be plainly and visibly labeled or stenciled thereupon the following:.
The name and address of the consignor, the name and address of the con-
signee, 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 or 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 misdemeanor 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 subsequent offense
shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100)
and not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment in the
Maryland House of Correction for a term of not exceeding six months,
or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court. Pro-
vided 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. 1920 Code, sec. 148.

122. 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, vinous,
fermented, malt or intoxicating liquors, or any mixture thereof contain-
ing alcohol for beverage purposes, except as hereinbefore provided, and
any delivery by any carrier or its agent of any receipt by any person,
other than is provided for in this Act, shall be deemed to have been done
with intent to violate the law of said counties relating to or prohibiting
the sale of such liquors. Any person, firm or corporation who violates the
provisions of this section upon trial and conviction therefor shall be sub-
ject to the fines and penalties hereinbefore provided in the foregoing sec-
tion of this Act.

1914, ch. 831. 1920 Code, sec. 149.

123. All prosecutions for violations of the provisions of the preceding
sections of this Act, which are hereby declared to be criminal offenses,
may be either upon presentment and indictment, or by trial before a jus-