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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 153.

AN ACT to prevent the sale of spirituous and fer-

mented liquors within the distance of one-half

mile from the main exhibition hall of the Agri-

cultural and Mechanical Society of Harford county

during the days of any exhibitions of said society.

Who shall
sell liquor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That any person who shall sell or bar-

ter any spirituous or fermented liquor or liquors,

lager beer or cider, within the distance of one-half

mile from the main exhibition hall of Agricultural

and Mechanical Society of Harford county on the

Days of ex-

days of any exhibitions of said society, shall be

hibitions.

deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon

Penalty.

conviction thereof, be fined not less than fifty nor

more than two hundred dollars, or shall be impris-

oned in the county jail not less than ten nor more

than thirty days, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That if any person shall

while selling or bartering any article whatsoever,

Give any
spirituous.

give any spirituous or fermented liquor or liquors,
or lager beer or cider, such giving of any of said

liquors shall be construed a sale within the provi-

sions of proceeding section.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted. That if any person shall

Commit an

commit an offence against the provisions of the pro-

offence

ceeding sections, such person shall, in addition to

the penalties therein mentioned, forfeit all such

spirituous and fermented liquors, and all the chests

and other things containing the same belonging to

or in the possession of the person so offending ; and

Duty of

it shall be the duty of any sheriff, deputy sheriff or

sheriff.

constable, or any of the special police to be appointed

as hereinafter provided, if he or they shall see any

person violating the proceeding sections, to arrest

the offender and carry him before a justice of the

peace, who shall hold him to bail, and in default

thereof shall commit him to jail to await the action

of the next grand jury. The sheriff, deputy sheriff,

constable or special police aforesaid, when he arrests

Shall seize.

the offender, shall seize the property hereby declared