WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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shall be sold or given away at his, her or its place

of business, by any person, corporation, company or

association, or to aid and assist any person, corpora-

tion, company or association in such sale or gift;

and any person, corporation, company or association

violating the provisions of this section, shall be

subject to the like fines and punishments as are

prescribed for violations of the fourth section of

this act.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That nothing herein

contained shall be construed to prevent me com-

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pounding or sale of any such liquors for medicinal

purposes by a pharmacist or druggist, who shall or

may obtain a license under the license laws of the

State, upon the written bona fide prescription of a

regular practising physician whose name shall be

signed thereto, and all such prescriptions shall be

filed and kept by such pharmacist or druggist, and

no prescription shall serve for more than one pur-

chase; but no physician shall make or sign any such

prescription unless the person for whom it is made

is actually sick, and such liquor is absolutely re-

quired as a medicine. Any physician who shall after

Liquor as a

said first day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-

medicine.

three, make or sign any prescription for such liquor,

except as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a vio-

lation of this act, and upon conviction thereof shall

be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than

two hundred dollars for the first offence, and not

less than two hundred dollars nor more than five

hundred dollars for each subsequent offence; and if

the buyer shall obtain a prescription by misrepre-

sentation, he shall likewise be deemed guilty of a

violation of this act, and upon conviction thereof

shall be subject to the same fines as the physician

Penalty for

misrepresenta-

who shall violate the same, the one-half of said fines

tion.

to be paid to the informer, and the residue to the

Board of Public School Commissioners of Harford

county, for the use of the said public schools; and

said violaters shall be committed to the county jail

of Harford county until such fines and costs are

paid, nor shall anything herein be construed to pro-

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hibit a sale by a pharmacist or druggist in case of

strued.

extreme illness when delay may be dangerous to

the patient.