ART. 17.] LIQUOR AND INTOXICATING DRINKS. 1623

jail for thirty days, or be both fined and imprisoned, in the dis-
cretion of the court. This section shall not apply to the tenth
district of said county.

1884, ch. 283.

254. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent
the compounding or sale of any such liquors for medicinal pur-
poses by a pharmacist and druggist, who shall or may obtain a
license under the license law of this State, and upon a written
bona fide prescription of a regular practising physician, whose
name shall be signed thereto; and all such prescriptions shall be
filed and kept by such pharmacist and druggist, and no prescrip-
tion 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, and such liquor is deemed by
said physician necessary as a medicine; any physician who shall
make or sign any prescription for such liquor, except as afore-
said, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this law, and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor
more than two hundred dollars for the first offence, and not less
than two hundred nor more than five hundred dollars for each
subsequent offence; and if the buyer shall obtain a prescription
by misrepresentation, he shall likewise be deemed guilty of a
violation of this law, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject
to the same fine as the physician who shall violate the same; the
one-half of said fine to be paid to the informer and the residue to
the board of school commissioners of said county, for the benefit
of the public schools thereof; and said violators shall be com-
mitted to the county jail of said county until such fine and costs
are paid; nor shall anything herein be construed to prohibit a
sale by a pharmacist or druggist in case of extreme illness where
delay may be dangerous to the patient. This section shall not
apply to the tenth election district of said county.

Ibid.

255. All prosecutions for violations of the three preceding
sections may be either upon presentment and indictment, or by
trial before a justice of the peace, who shall have jurisdiction,
original and concurrent, with the circuit court for said county;