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392 SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 19.
RETAILERS.
1870, c. 414 repeals and re-enacts sections 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147 and
148 so as to read as follows:
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1870, c. 414.
Not to Hell
liquor in Tan-
gier district.
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139. No person shall sell or keep for sale any spirit-
uous or intoxicating liquors within the limits of Tan-
gier district, being district number nine of Somerset
county, and the clerk of the circuit court for Somerset
county shall not grant any license for any such sale or
disposal, nor shall any person give away such liquor
or keep it with the intent to give it away, (except as a
medicine by physicians or for sacramental purposes, ) in
any tavern, store, grocery, shop, boarding or victualling
house, or place of public amusements, or any place con-
nected therewith; nor shall it be lawful to deposit any
such liquor except in a dwelling house or in a church
for sacramental purposes, or in some mechanical, chemi-
cal or medicinal establishment requiring its use, or
whilst in storage for transportation.
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Bounds of dis-
trict.
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140. The boundaries of said district, for the pur-
poses of the preceding section, shall extend to the
middle of the channel of Tangier sound and Manokin
river, respectively, whenever they or either of them
shall bind on said district.
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Penalty for sell-
ing, &c., liquor.
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141. If any person shall sell or give intoxicating
liquors contrary to the provisions of the one hundred
and thirty-ninth section of this article, he shall be
fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars
for the first offence, and in default of payment shall
be imprisoned not less than five nor more than twenty
days, or both, in the discretion of the judge or justice
before whom the same may be tried, and for the
second offence he shall be fined not less than twenty
nor more than one hundred dollars, and shall be im-
prisoned not less than five nor more than thirty days,
and for the third offence he shall be fined not less
than fifty dollars and be imprisoned not less than
twenty nor more than fifty days; one-half of the fine
imposed by this section shall go to the informer and
the other half to the treasury of the state, and the
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