ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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tax upon and the registering of his or its said business, may be

proved by a certificate of said collector or any of his deputies, or

by the sworn testimony of him or any of them, and a copy of the

application of any person, house, company, association or body

corporate for registry under said revenue laws, made and attested

by said collector or any of his deputies, shall be prima fade

proof of such application.

185. If any druggist or pharmacist shall violate any of the pre-

Liable

ceding sections, he shall be liable to the same penalties, which are

set forth in section one hundred and eighty-two.

186. One-half of all such fines shall be paid to the informer,

and the balance shall be paid to the board of school commis-

To schools

sioners of the county, for the use of the public schools therein.

187. All prosecutions for violations of any of the provisions of

this sub-title of this article, shall be upon presentment and in-

dictment; but any justice of the peace of the county shall have

Indict-
ment.

the same authority to receive information of violations thereof,

and to take recognizances and bail, or to commit, as is now ex-

ercised by justices of the peace of the county, under the Public

General Laws of this State.

188. In any indictment for violation of the provisions of this

sub-title of this article, it shall not be necessary, except in the

case of cider, to specify the particular kind of liquor, which any

person, house, company, association or body corporate, bartered,

sold or gave away, or solicited or received orders for the purchase

of, or kept deposited, or had with intent to barter, sell or give

Need not

away, or that the same had been bartered, sold or given away in

specify.

violation of said provisions; but it shall be sufficient if the in-

dictment set forth that the traverser bartered, sold or gave away,

or solicited or received orders for the purchase of, or kept de-

posited, or had with intent to barter, sell or give away spirituous

or fermented liquors or intoxicating drinks, or with intent that

the same be bartered, sold or given away, in violation of said pro-

visions.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That if it shall appear by the returns

of said judges, and the certificate of said clerk, that a majority of

such votes have been cast " For license," then and in that event

Returns.

the following sections shall be added to article eight, of the Code

of Public Local Laws, title " Cecil county," sub-title " Sales of

spirituous or fermented liquors," to take effect on the first day of

December, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety.

SEC. 409. No person in Cecil county shall obtain a license for

the sale or barter of spirituous or fermented liquors in any quan-

License

tities whatever, except such as shall be qualified as hereinafter

provided.

SEC. 410. Any person in Cecil county who may keep a house