ART. 11.] LIQUOR AND INTOXICATING DRINKS. 1173

LIQUOR AND INTOXICATING DRINKS.

1880, ch. 147.

300. It shall not be lawful for any person, or body corporate,
to sell directly or indirectly at any place, or to give away at his
place of business, any spirituous or fermented liquors, or intoxicat-
ing drinks of any kind (cider and home-made wine excepted), in
the third, eighth, tenth, fifteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and
nineteenth election districts of said county; nor shall any license
be issued or granted for the sale of the same in any of said

election districts of said county.

Ibid.

301. If any person, or body corporate, shall sell directly or
indirectly at any place, or give away at his place of business, any
spirituous or fermented liquor or intoxicating drinks of any kind
(cider and home-made wine excepted), in any of said above named
election districts, he shall, on conviction thereof in the circuit

court for said county, be fined for the first offence not less than

fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, and for each
subsequent offence not less than two hundred dollars nor more
than five hundred dollars, and on failure to pay the same shall be
committed to the jail of said county until such fine and costs are
paid; and one-half of said fine shall be paid to the informer and
the other half to the board of school commissioners of said county,
for the benefit of the public schools in the election district wherein
the violation of this section occurred.

Ibid.

302. Nothing contained in the two preceding sections shall be

construed to prevent the compounding or sale of any such liquors
by a pharmacist or druggist, who may or shall have obtained
license therefor under the license laws of the State, upon the
written bona fide prescription of a regular practising physician of
such district, whose name shall be signed thereto; and every such
prescription shall be filed and kept by such pharmacist or drug-
gist, and no prescription shall serve more than one purchaser;
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