FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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hereby added to article fifty -six of the Code of Public

General Laws, title "Licenses," sub-title "Penalties," to

New

be known as sections eighty-niue B, and eighty -nine C,

sections.

relating to obtaining liquors by minors and giving liquors

to minors, and to read as follows :

SEC. 89 B. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That any person under the age of twenty-one

years who knowingly and willfully makes any misrepresenta-

Minors ob-
taining

tion or false statement as to his age, and by reason of such

liquors by
misrepre-

misrepresentation or false statement obtains any spirituous

sentation

or fermented liquors from any other persons licensed to sell

such spirituous or fermented liquors under the laws of this

State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon

conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one dollar

nor more than twenty dollars, or imprisoned in jail for not

less than five days nor more than thirty days, or both fined

and imprisoned in the discretion of the court : provided,

that the testimony given by any minor or person under

twenty-one years of age in the prosecution of any person for

selling liquors to minors under the laws of this State shall

not be be used against such minor in prosecution under

this act.

SEC. 89 C. And be it enacted, That any person who

obtains any spirituous or fermented liquors from any other

person licensed to sell the same for any minor or person

Obtaining
liquors for

under twenty -one years of age, knowing him to be such, to

minors a
misde-

be drunk by said minor or person under twenty -one years of

meanor

age, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon

conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty dollars

nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned in jail for not less

than thirty days, nor more than ninety days, or both fined

and imprisoned in the discretion of the court.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 448.

AN A CT to add a new article to the Code of Public General

Laws to be known as " Stationary Engineers," and to be

numbered article 101.

WHEREAS, in most professions in which responsibility as

to damages to persons or property is involved, the custom

Preamble

prevailing or the laws of the State of Maryland require all

persons having or wishing to assume such responsibility to