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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the clerk of said court; and said justice shall in every case in-

form the offender of his right to a trial by jury.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the

sheriff of said county to publish in the two newspapers of opposite
politics and having the largest circulation in said county, and by
handbills posted in said district, notice of said election at least

seven days before said election, by at least one insertion in each

of said papers unaer penalty in case of neglect or refusal to do

so, as is now provided in the election laws of this State, and said

notice shall, in substance, state that the question whether or not

Notice of

spirituous, fermented or alcoholic liquors or bitters shall be sold

election.

in the fifth election district, will be submitted to the voters of

said district on the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and

ninety; and the said sheriff shall under like penalty, receive

from the clerk of the circuit court for Carroll county a certified

copy of the poll list or lists of registered voters of the fifth elec-

tion district of said county, now in said clerk's office; and said

clerk is hereby directed to deliver the same, and place the same

in the hands of the judges of election already appointed or ap-

pointed in the meantime by the county commissioners of said

county, at least two days before said election, and the polls shall

be opened at the usual place of voting in said district, or such

place within said district as may be designated by the county

commissioners of said county, at eight o'clock, a. m., and be closed

at six o'clock, p. m., when said ballots shall be counted publicly.

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

be construed to prevent the compounding of liquors in a prescrip-
tion by a pharmacist or druggist upon a written and bona fide

prescription of a regular practicing physician, whose name shall

be signed thereto, and such prescription shall be filed and num-

bered in regular order, and no prescription shall serve for more

than one purchase; no physician shall give any such prescription

Not to
prevent.

unless the person is actually sick, and in the opinion of such phy-

sician actually requires the same; and any physican who shall

under any other circumstances, give such a prescription, shall be

liable to the penalties prescribed by section third of this act; but

nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize any phar-

macist or druggist or any other person to sell or barter any alco-

holic bitters as a beverage; and any pharmacist, druggist or any

other person so selling or bartering within said district shall be

liable to the penalties prescribed in section three of this act.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That one-half of all fines imposed

and collected under this act shall be paid to the informer, and

Fines-
how dis-

one-half to the board of school commissioners of said county for

posed of

the use of the public schools; and in case fines be imposed by the

said circuit court or justices of the peace, said violators may be