ART. 20.] LIQUOR AND INTOXICATING DRINKS. 1805

half the fines shall go to the informer, who shall be certified as
such by the grand jury making the presentment, and the other
half to the county, for the uses of the public schools.

1876, ch. 168.

142. No sale of said prohibited liquors shall be deemed a
sale for medicinal purposes under the preceding section unless
the buyer presents a written prescription of some respectable
physician, except in the case of extreme illness, when delay is
impracticable and dangerous, and unless the seller be a physician,
in which case he shall take the buyer's certificate of the facts on
which he acts; said prescription and certificate shall be preserved
by the seller for his vindication; and no sale shall be deemed to
have been made for mechanical purposes unless the seller require
of the buyer his written certificate for preservation, that the
liquor is desired solely for mechanical purposes; and the said
prescription and certificate in all cases shall be proof of bona fides
on the part of the seller, unless collusion be shown; and if it be
shown the buyer procured a prescription by misrepresentation or
subscribed a false and fraudulent certificate, he shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished in the same
manner and to the same extent as the seller would have been had
he been found guilty of a violation of said section.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 19, sec. 138.

143. No licensed retailer of spirituous liquors in election dis-
trict number four of said county, shall be held to answer for any
violation of the provisions of law forbidding spirituous liquors to
be drunk in and about his premises, but such prohibition shall be
inoperative in said district of said county.

1870, ch. 414

144. No person shall sell or keep for sale any spirituous or in-
toxicating liquors within the limits of Tangier district, being dis-
trict number nine of Somerset county; and the clerk of the circuit
court for Somerset county shall not grant any license for any
such sale or disposal; nor shall any person give away such liquor,
or keep it with the intent to give away, (except as a medicine by
physicians, or for sacramental purposes,) in any tavern, store,