1702 QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY. [ART. 18.

is made is actually sick, and such liquor is absolutely necessary 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 violation of this section, 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 section, and upon convic-
tion 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 committed to the county jail until such fine and
costs are paid; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to
prohibit a sale by a pharmacist or druggist in case of extreme ill-
ness, when delay may be dangerous to the patient.

1883, ch. 244. 1882, ch. 307.

198. Any person who shall have been engaged for four con-
tinuous months immediately before the first day of December,
eighteen hundred and eighty-two, in business as a pharmacist
and druggist, shall be entitled on and after said day to carry on
such business under a new license similar to the one under which
he had been acting just prior to said day; provided, he shall
first file a petition with and to the clerk of said court, setting
forth that he has been engaged for the time aforesaid in the
business of a pharmacist and druggist, and praying for the
issuing to him of a pharmacist and druggists' license; and the
clerk shall forthwith issue to such petitioner, upon his paying
the usual charges therefor and a fee of twenty-five cents to the
clerk, a traders' license, and endorsed thereon, over his official
signature, the words "Pharmacist and Druggists' License;" but
if any other person shall desire to obtain from said clerk a
license to conduct the business of a pharmacist and druggist,
endorsed as aforesaid, after the first day of December, eighteen
hundred and eighty-two, he shall first file with said clerk a
petition addressed to one of the judges of the circuit court for
said county, setting forth in what district of said county he pro-