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exceeding five hundred: dollars and imprisonment in the House
of Correction or in jail for not exceeding six months, or both
such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the Court.

(d) ST. MARY'S COUNTY. In St. Mary's County, (1) for any
violation of the laws as to licensing the sale of alcoholic bever-
ages, the penalty upon conviction shall be a fine not exceeding
five hundred dollars.

(2) For any violation of the laws as to hours or days for
the sale of alcoholic beverages, the violator shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon trial and conviction shall
be subjected to a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50,00) nor
more than two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) or may be
confined in the County Jail or the House of Correction for not
less than sixty days.

INTERPRETATION

176. EXCEPTIONS PREVAIL OVER GENERAL RULE.
In any part of this Article, where a statement of a general
rule of law is followed by an exception or qualification ap-
plicable to special areas or to particular persons or sets of
circumstances, the law as stated in the exception or qualifica-
tion shall prevail over the general rule of law insofar as there
is any conflict or inconsistency between the two.

177. SEPARABILITY. If any portion of this Article or
the application thereof to any person or set of circumstances
is held invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction and au-
thority, the remainder of this Article and its application to
other persons and sets of circumstances shall not thereby be
affected.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Sections 299 to
316N, inclusive, of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Allegany County", sub-title
"Alcoholic Beverages", as said sections were enacted by ch. 5
and by ch. 58 of the Acts of the Special Session of 1933, Section
301 thereof having been amended by ch. 347 of the Acts of 1941;
Sections 379 to 390B, inclusive, of Article 2 of said Code, title
"Anne Arundel County", sub-title "Liquor and Intoxicating
Drinks", Sections 390A and 390B thereof having been enacted
by ch. 84 of the Acts of the Special Session of 1933; Sections 34
to 59, inclusive, and Sections 61, 62 and 62A of said Article 2,
sub-title "Annapolis", Section 34 thereof having been amended
and Section 62A thereof having been enacted by ch. 392 of the
Acts of 1933, said Section 54 thereof having been amended by
ch. 211 of the Acts of 1939; Sections 368 to 380F, inclusive, of