1040 DORCHESTER COUNTY. [A.RT. 10.

LIQUOR AND INTOXICATING DRINKS.

1874, ch. 453. 1878, ch. 462. 1880, ch. 406. 1884, ch. 390.

207. It shall not be lawful for any person, firm, company, or
body corporate to sell or otherwise dispose of by way of barter,
directly or indirectly, in the first, second, third, fourth, seventh,
eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth
election districts, any spirituous, fermented or other intoxicating
liquors, or medicated bitters producing intoxication, or any com-
pound of which alcohol forms the chief or a principal ingredient,
or for any license to be issued or granted for the sale of the same
in any of said election districts of the county; provided, that
nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the com-
pounding or sale of any such liquors by a regular pharmacist or
druggist having a license for such business under the laws of this.
State, upon the written bona fide prescription of a regular practis-
ing physician of such district, whose name shall be signed thereto ;
and every such prescription shall be filed and kept by such phar-
macist or druggist, and no one prescription shall serve for more
than one purchase; but no physician shall make or sign any such
prescription unless the person for whom it is made is actually
sick, or such liquor is absolutely required as a medicine; and any
physician who shall make or sign any prescription for such liquor,
except as provided for herein, shall be deemed guilty of a viola-
tion of this section, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not
less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars and costs for
each offence, and be committed by the court wherein such con-
viction is had until such fine and costs are paid; nor shall any-
thing herein contained be construed to prohibit a sale by such
pharmacist or druggist in case of extreme illness, when delay
would be dangerous to the patient; and provided, that nothing
herein contained shall be construed to prevent the sale of peach
or apple brandy and wines manufactured in said county by the
producer of the fruit from which the same are made, at his place
of residence, in quantities not less than one gallon; and provided
further, that cider made from apples shall not be construed to
mean fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquor.
Jones v. State, 67 Md. 256.

1883, ch. 206.

208. Every prescription made or signed under the provisions
of the preceding section, shall contain the name of the person for