WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 296.

AN ACT to add certain sub-sections to section four

of chapter four hundred and sixty-two of the

acts of the General Assembly, passed at the Jan-

uary session of the year eighteen hundred and

seventy-eight, entitled ''An Act to enable the

qualified voters of certain election districts of

Dorchester county to determine by ballot whether

spirituous or fermented liquors shall be sold in

said district, or a license granted for the sale of

the same therein."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the following sub-sections

be and they are hereby added to section four of

chapter four hundred and sixty-two of the acts of

the General Assembly, passed at the January ses-

sion of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight,

Sub section

entitled "An act to enable the qualified voters of

added.

certain election districts of Dorchester county to

determine by ballot whether spirituous or fermented

liquors shall be sold in said districts, or a license

granted for the sale of the same therein : "

SUB-SECTION 1. Every prescription made or signed

under the provisions of section four of saii chapter

shall. contain the name of the person for whom the

Prescription

liquor is prescribed, the kind and quantity of the

—what to con-
tain.

same, and the date on which the prescription is

made; every such prescription shall be written with

ink, and shall be signed by the full ordinary signa-

ture of the physician; upon receiving any prescrip-

tion for liquor the druggist or pharmacist shall

copy, or cause the same to be copied, in a book to

Druggist to

be kept exclusively for such prescriptions, and shall

copy in book.

also enter the name of the person to whom the

liquor shall be delivered; and the physician shall

also enter in a book to be kept by himself all pre-

scriptions for liquor made or signed by him; and

such prescriptions and the said books shall be deliv-

ered to the State's Attorney or to any grand jury or

justice of the peace of the said county calling for

the production thereof; and every proper and law-

ful prescription shall be prima facie evidence of the