WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE. GOVERNOR 493

	or their place of business, any spirituous or fermented
	liquors or intoxicating drinks of any kind, cider and
	home-made wine, the proportion of alcohol in which
	does not exceed fifteen per cent., excepted, in any
	election district of said county wherein a majority
	of the votes has thus been cast against the sale of
	spirituous or fermented liquors, nor shall any license
	be issued or granted for the sale of the same in any
	of said election districts in said county, on or after
	the first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred
	and eighty-one.
	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if any person or
	persons, or body corporate, shall sell directly or indi-
	rectly at any place, or give away at his, her or their
	place of business, any fermented or spirituous liquors
	or intoxicating drinks of any kind, cider and home-
	made wine, the proportion of alcohol in which does
	not exceed fifteen per cent., excepted, in any of said
	election districts wherein a majority of the votes has
	been thus cast against the sale of spirituous or fer-
	mented liquors, on or after the first day of May, in
	the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, he, she	Penalty for
	or they shall, on conviction thereof in the circuit	violation.
	court for said county, be fined for the first offence
	not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred
	dollars, and for each subsequent offence not less
	than two hundred nor more than three hundred dol-
	lars, and on failure to pay the same shall be com-
	mitted to the jail of said county until such fine and
	the costs are paid, and said fines shall be paid to the
	board of school commissioners of said county for the
	benefit of the public schools in the election district
	wherein the violation of this act occurred.
	SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That nothing herein con-
	tained shall be construed to prevent the compound-	How con-
	ing or sale of any such liquors by a pharmacentist or druggist who may or shall obtain license therefor	strued
	under the license laws of the State, upon the written
	bona fide prescription of a regular practicing phys- ician of such district, whose name shall be signed
	thereto ; and every such prescription shall be filed
	and kept by such pharmaceutist or druggist, and no
	prescription shall serve more than one purchaser; but
	no physician shall make or sign any such prescription