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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if any person or

persons, house, company, association or body corpor-

Penalty for
violation.

ate, shall sell, directly or indirectly, at any place, or
give away at his, her, their or its place of business,

any spirituous or fermented liquors, or alcoholic bit-

ters, or intoxicating drinks of any kind (cider ex-

cepted) within the limits of Cecil county, on or after

the first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred

and eighty-one, he, she or they 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 ; or instead

of such fine, imprisonment in the county jail for

thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the conrt;

and on the second and every subsequent conviction

not less than two hundred nor more than five hun-

dred dollars; or instead of such fine, imprisonment

in the county jail for sixty days, or both, in the dis-

cretion of the court; and on failure to pay the fine,

as herein described, he, she or they shall be com-

Commit to

mitted to the county jail of Cecil county until such

jail.

fine and the costs are paid ; one-half of the fine im-

posed for any violation of this act shall go to the

informer, and the residue to the board of county

school commissioners of said county, for the benefit

of the public schools therein.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That nothing herein

How con-

contained shall be construed to prevent the com-

strued.

pounding or sale of any such liquors by a pharma-

cist or druggist who may or shall have obtained li-

cense therefor under the license laws of the State,

upon the written bona fide prescription of a regular

practising physician of Cecil county, whose name

shall be signed thereto; and all such prescriptions

shall be tiled and kept by such pharmacist or drug-

gist, 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
is made is actually sick, or such Jiquor is absolutely

Liquor as

required as a medicine. Any physician who shall,

medicine.

after said first day of May, eighteen hundred and

eighty-one, make or sign any prescription for such

liquor, except as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty

of a violation of this act, and upon conviction there-

of shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more