ART. 17.] LIQUOR AND INTOXICATING DRINKS. 1621

which may be necessary to the exercise of his said jurisdiction,
and may try and determine all cases for the violation of said

sections, and pronounce judgment and sentence, and enforce the
same, to the same extent and manner as the circuit court for said

county can do in such cases; provided, that if any person, when
brought before any justice shall, before trial, pray a jury trial, or if

the State's attorney shall pray a jury trial, it shall be the duty of
said justice to commit such offender for trial, or hold him to bail,
to appear for trial at the next circuit court for said county, and
to return the commitment or recognizance, with names of the
witnesses endorsed thereon, forthwith to the clerk of said court;
And said justice shall in every case inform the offender of his
right to & jury trial.

1888, ch 258.

250. Nothing contained in sections 247 and 248 shall be con-
strued to prevent the compounding of liquors in a prescription
by a pharmacist or druggist, upon a written and bona fide pre-

scription of a regular practising physician of medicine, whose
name shall be signed thereto, and such prescriptions shall be filled

and numbered in regular order, and no prescription shall serve
for more than one purchase; no physician shall give any such
prescription unless the person is actually sick, and in the opinion

of such physician actually requires the same; and any physician
who shall, under any other circumstances, give such a prescrip-
tion, shall be liable to the penalties prescribed by section 248;
but nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize any
pharmacist or druggist to sell or barter any alcoholic bitters as a
beverage; and any pharmacist or druggist so selling or bartering

within said district shall be liable to the penalties prescribed in
said section.

Ibid.

251. One-half of all fines imposed by section 248 shall be
paid to the informer, and one-half to the board of school com-
missioners of said county, for the use of the public schools;
and in case fines be imposed by the said circuit court or justices
of the peace, said violators may be committed to the county jail
of said county until such fines and costs are paid.