ART. 18.] LIQUOR AND INTOXICATING DRINKS. 1701

1883, ch. 144. 1882, ch. 307.

195. It shall not be lawful for any person, house, corporation,

company or association, to sell, directly or indirectly, at any place,
or to give away at his or their place of business, within the limits
of any of election districts numbers two, three, six and seven, any
spirituous, fermented or intoxicating liquors of any origin what-
ever, or alcoholic bitters.
Fell v. State, 42 Md. 71.

Ibid.

196. Any person, house, company, association or body corpo-
rate, who shall sell, directly or indirectly, at any place, or give

away at his or their place of business, any spirituous or fermented
liquors, or alcoholic bitters, or intoxicating drinks of any kind,
within the limits of said election districts numbers two, three, six
and seven, shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay on the
first conviction a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than
three hundred dollars, and costs of prosecution, and be imprisoned
in the county jail for thirty days; and on the second and every
subsequent conviction, not less than one hundred dollars nor
more than five hundred dollars, and in addition to such fine, be
imprisoned in the county jail for not less than sixty nor more
than ninety days, in the discretion of the court; and on failure to
pay any such fine as herein described, he or they shall remain in

the jail of said county after the term of imprisonment until such
fine and costs are paid; one-half of the fine imposed for the vio-
lation of this section shall go to the informer, and the residue to
the board of school commissioners of said county for the bene-
fit of the public schools therein.

Ibid.

197. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent
the compounding or sale of any such liquors for medicinal pur-
poses, by a pharmacist or druggist, who shall or may obtain a
license under the license laws 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 or druggist, 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