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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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 dol-

lars and costs of prosecution, and failing to pay such fine and

Fine.

costs forthwith, shall be sentenced to be confined in the Mary-

land house of correction for a term not less than six months nor

more than twelve months, or until such fine and costs are paid.

183. Nothing in the four preceding sections shall be coustrued

to prevent the compounding or sale of any such liquors by a regu-

lar 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 such druggist or pharmacist and

Pharma-
cists

kept by him, and no prescription shall serve for more than one

purchase, but no physician shall make or sign any such prescrip-

tion 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 prosecution, 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 drug-

gist 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.

184. In the trial of any person or any house, company, asso-

ciation or body corporate for a violation of any of the five pre-

ceding sections, it shall be lawful for the State to prove that

such person, house, company, association or body corporate on

trial has or have paid (if such be the case) a special tax to the

Special tax

government of the United States under the internal revenue laws

thereof, upon, or for his or its business as brewers or, retail

dealers in liquors, or wholesale dealers in liquors, or retail dealers

in malt liquors, or wholesale dealers in malt liquors, as the case

may be, in Cecil county, for a period of time within which such

violation has occurred, and to prove that he or it has or have

registered his or its business for said period as such dealers, with

the collector of internal revenue for the district of which Cecil

county shall form a part, and that he or it made application to

said collector to be so registered; and it shall be lawful for the

State in such case to offer in evidence said internal revenue laws

relating to said special taxes; and the payment of said special