ART. 13.] LIQUOR AND INTOXICATING DRINKS. 1367

shall be lawful for the State in such case to offer in evidence said
internal revenue law relating to said special taxes, and the pay-
ment of said special tax upon, and the registering of his or its
said business may be proved by a certificate of said collector, or
any of his deputies, or by the sworn testimony of him, or any of
them; and a copy of the application of any person, house,
company, association or body corporate, for registry, under said
revenue laws, made and attested by said collector, or any of his
deputies, shall be prima facie proof of such application, and the
payment of said tax and the application for such registry shall be
prima facie evidence that the party so paying and applying is
engaged in the sale of intoxicating liquors within the limits of
Harford county.

1888, ch 292.

233. If any druggist or pharmacist shall violate any of the
provisions of the preceding sections of this sub-title of this article,
he shall be liable to the same penalties which are set forth in
section 230 aforesaid.

Ibid.

234. All fines imposed under this sub-title of this article shall
be paid to the board of county school commissioners of said
county, for the use of the public schools therein.

Ibid.

235. All prosecutions for violations of the provisions of this
sub-title of this article, which are hereby declared to be crim-
inal offences, may be either upon presentment and indictment
or by trial before a justice of the peace, who shall have juris-
diction, original and concurrent with the circuit court for said
county, and the said justice shall have power to issue all pro-
cess, and to do all acts which may be necessary to the exercise
of his said jurisdiction, and may try and determine all cases
whereof he may have jurisdiction, and may pronounce judgment
and sentence therein in the same manner and to the same extent
as the circuit court for said county could do in such cases, as if
such cases were tried before said court without the intervention
of a jury; provided, however, that if any person when brought
before any such justice having jurisdiction of the case shall,
before trial for the alleged offence, pray a jury trial, or if the