838 CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8,

sections, within the limits of Cecil county, he or it shall, on each
and every conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a fine of not less
than one hundred dollars nor more than six hundred dollars and
costs of prosecution, and be confined in the Maryland house of
correction for not less than six months nor more than twelve
months, or, in the discretion of the court, forfeit and pay a fine
of not less than-one hundred dollars nor more than six hundred
dollars and costs of prosecution, and failing to pay such fine and
costs forthwith, shall be sentenced to be confined in the Mary-
land house of correction for a term not leas than six months nor
more than twelve months, or until such fine and costs are paid.

1886, ch. 291.

183. Nothing in the four preceding sections shall be construed
to prevent the compounding or sale of any such liquors by a
regular pharmacist or druggist who may or shall have obtained a
license therefor under the license laws of this State, upon the
written bona fide prescription of a regular practising physician
of said county, whose name shall be signed thereto, and all such
prescriptions shall be filed by said druggist or pharmacist and
kept by him, and no prescription shall serve for more than one
purchase; but no physician shall make or sign any such pre-
scription unless the person for whom it shall be made is actually
sick, or such liquor is absolutely required as a medicine; any
physician who shall make or sign any prescription for such liquor,
except as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty
dollars nor more than three hundred dollars and costs of prose-
cution, and be committed to the county jail of said county until
such fine and costs of prosecution are paid; nor shall anything in
the said sections be construed to prohibit a sale, by a pharmacist
or druggist, of such liquors, to be used by or for a sick person, in
case of extreme illness, when delay may be dangerous to the
patient, nor to prevent the sale by a pharmacist or druggist, of
wine to be used for sacramental purposes solely.

Ibid.

184. In the trial of any person, or any house, company,
association or body corporate, for a violation of any of the five