1366 HARFOBD COUNTY. [AET. 13.
Public General Laws, title "Licenses," upon the written bona
fide prescription of a regular practicing physician of said
county, whose name shall be signed thereto; and all such
prescriptions shall be filed by said druggist or pharmacist
and kept by him, and no prescription shall serve for more
than one purchase; but no physician shall make or sign any
such prescription unless the person for whom it shall be
made is actually sick, or such liquor is absolutely required as a
medicine. Any physician who shall make or sign any prescrip-
tion for such liquor, except as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not
less than fifty dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, and
costs of prosecution, and be committed to the county jail of said
county until such fine and costs of prosecution are paid; and if
the buyer shall obtain a prescription by misrepresentation, he
shall likewise be deemed guilty of a violation of this sub-title of
this article, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to the
same penalties which are set forth in section 230; but nothing
in the preceding sections shall be construed to prohibit a sale
by a pharmacist or druggist of such liquors to be used by or for a
sick person, in case of extreme illness, when delay may be
dangerous to the patient, nor to prevent the sale by a pharmacist
or druggist of wine to be used for sacramental purposes solely.
1888, ch. 292.
232. In the trial of any person, or any house, company, associa-
tion or body corporate, for a violation of any of the preceding
sections of this sub-title of this article, it shall be lawful for the
State to prove that such person, house, company, association or
body corporate, on trial, has or have paid (if such be the case) a
special tax to the government of the United States, under the
internal revenue laws thereof, upon or for his or its business as
brewers or retail dealers in liquors, or wholesale dealers in
liquors, or retail dealers in malt liquors, or wholesale dealers in,
malt liquors (as the case may be) in Harford county, for a period
of time within which such violation has occurred, and to prove
that he or it has registered his or its business for said period as
such dealer with the collector of internal revenue for the
district of which Harford county shall form a part, and that he
or it made application to said collector to be so registered; and it
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