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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

or in such other place or places, in said county, where

prohibition may exist at the time of the passage of

this act, whether the voters of said county shall de-

clare at the election herein provided for against

the sale of such liquors or not/

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That nothing herein

Not to inter-

contained shall be construed to prevent the com-

fere with pie-
scriptions

pounding or sale of any such liquors by a pharmacist
or druggist who may or shall obtain license therefor

under the license laws of the State, upon the writ-

ten bona fide prescription of a regular practicing

physician, whose name shall be signed thereto, and

every such prescription shall be filed and kept by

such pharmacist or druggist, and no prescription

shall be filled but once; but no physician shall make

or sign any such prescription unless the person for

whom it is made is actually sick, or such liquors are

absolutely required as a medicine ; and any physi-

cian who, after said first day of May, (1880) eighteen

hundred and eighty, shall make or sign any prescrip-

tion for such liquors, except as aforesaid, shall be

deemed guilty of a violation of this act, and upon

Fine fol vio-

conviction thereof shall be fined not less than

lation.

twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for

the first offence, nor less than one hundred dollars

nor more than five hundred dollars for each subse-

quent offence, said fine to be paid to Board of Pub-

lic School Commissioners of .Prince George's county,

for the use of said public schools; nor shall anything

herein be construed to prohibit a sale by such phar-

macist or druggist in case of extreme illness, when

delays may be dangerous to the patient.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 25, 1880.