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and assistance to such officer in searching such place, house
or thing for such intoxicating liquor. (I) Liquor seized as
hereinbefore provided, and the means used for the sale of
the same, shall not be taken from the custody of the officer
by a writ of replevin or other process while the proceedings
herein provided are pending; and final judgment of convic-
tion in such proceedings shall be in all cases a bar to all
suits for the recovery of any liquor seized or the value of
the same, or for damages alleged to arise by reason of the
seizing and detention thereof. (K) When any prosecution is
commenced before the Police Justice or court for a violation
of this Act, and the liquor seized under this section is to be
used as evidence in such trial, the hearing must take place
in not more than thirty days if such court is then in session,
and if it be not in session, within thirty days from the date
when it is next in session. If at the time appointed for trial
the returns have not been properly made, or for other sufficient
cause, the trial may be postponed to a further date not more
than fifteen days beyond said thirty days. (L) The word
"Liquor", when used in this section, unless the same be incon-
sistent with the context, shall be construed to include the
vessels containing the same; the phrase "Means used for the
sale of the same", shall include all furniture, implements,
equipment, instrumentalities, or paraphernalia of a barroom or
drinking saloon or any part of same, and any United States
internal revenue tax receipts effective for the period of time
covering the alleged offense, and to include also any convey-
ance or vehicle; the words "house" and "place" shall be con-
strued to include any edifice, apartment, room, tent, boat,
wagon, conveyance, motor vehicle, aeroplane, or any open air
location.

301L. Any private residence or any part thereof which
is a place of public resort, or is used as a store or shop, or is
utilized as a place for keeping, depositing, storing, hiding, se-
creting, handling, exchanging, distributing, furnishing or de-
livering any intoxicating liquor in any quantity whatever in-
tended for sale or disposition otherwise contrary to this Act
or contrary to law, shall not be accepted or held as a private
residence for the purposes of this Act.

301M. The giving away, furnishing, delivering, handling,
distributing or exchanging of any intoxicating liquor by any
storekeeper, or at any place of business, or at any private
residence not accepted or held as such, or the taking or solicit-
ing of orders, or the making of agreements by any person at or
within the said County of Queen Anne's for the sale or deliv-
ery or future giving away of any intoxicating liquors, or any