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be fined not less than three hundred dollars nor
more than six hundred dollars for each offence, one-
half to the informant, and shall be imprisoned not
less than thirty days nor more than six months.

In force from March 21, 1867, but shall not be construed to affect the rights of any
person who may have obtained a license to sell before its passage; and any per-
son who, before its adoption, may have offended against any of the sections
hereby repealed, shall remain liable to indictment, conviction and punishment
in pursuance of the provisions of said sections as if the same had not been repealed.

TRADERS.

1862, p. 49 repeals section 42 and enacts the following substitute:

42. When any person, body politic, or corporate, shall propose to sell or barter anything mentioned in the preceding section, except spirituous or fermented liquors, he shall apply to the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which he may reside, or if he resides in the city of Baltimore, to the court of com-	1862, c. 49. Licenses, to whom, and by whom issued.
mon pleas, for a license therefor; but no license to trade, or to sell spirituous or fermented liquors, shall be issued by any clerk of a court to a feme covert or to a person under the age of twenty-one years, with- out the special order of the judge of the court ; but no judge shall give such special order to issue license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors, unless upon the recommendation of at least ten respectable free- holders, residents of the ward or district wherein the place of sale may be, and whenever any license shall be issued to a feme covert, or minor, the said feme	How obtained by feme covert or minor to sell liquor.
covert or minor shall be responsible for all contracts made in the prosecution of their business under such license, and shall be liable to be sued therefor in any of the courts of this state ; and the said feme covert may be sued, or indicted and prosecuted in case of a violation by her of the license laws of this state, or in case she should keep a disorderly house, as if she were & feme sole; and, if judgment be obtained against her on any contract, execution shall or may issue in	Feme coverts' responsibility.