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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

good faith of the druggist or pharmacist selling

liquor thereunder; if any physician, druggist or

pharmacist shall violate any provision or require-

ment of this sub-section shall be guilty of misde-

meanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined

not less than twenty dollars and the costs of the

Penalty for

prosecution, and shall stand committed till said fine

violation.

and costs are paid; provided that if any druggist or

pharmacist shall sell such liquor under any other

than a proper or lawful prescription, he shall be

deemed guilty of selling without a prescription, and

shall be tried and fined as provided in section four

of said chapter.

SUB-SECTION 2. If any person shall sign the name

of a regular practicing physician to a prescription for

such liquor, or shall sign his own name or the name

of any other person to a prescription for liquor, he or

such other person not being a regular practicing phy-

Must be
signed by regu-

sician duly authorized to make such prescription, with

lar physician.

intent to obtain, or to enable others to obtain liquor

thereunder; or shall in any. respect alter any pre-

scription whereunder liquor is obtained, or is sought

to be obtained; or shall obtain by means of a pre-

scription such liquor for the use of any other person

or persons than such as be named therein; or shall

Fraudulent

falsely and fraudulently obtain a prescription for

prescriptions.

such liquor, such person shall be guilty of a misde-

meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined

not less than twenty dollars and the costs of prose-

cution, and shall stand committed till fine and costs

are paid.

SUB-SECTION 3. If such druggist or pharmacist

shall permit any liquor obtained under a prescrip-

When to be

tion to be drunk anywhere on his premises, except

be drunk on

in case of sudden sickness, he shall be guilty of a

premises.

misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be

fined fifty dollars and the costs of the prosecution,

and shall stand committed till fine and costs are paid.

SUB-SECTION 4. Every druggist or pharmacist

shall be liable for the acts of his clerks, agents or

Who is liable.

assistants with reference to the matters and things

embraced in chapter four hundred and sixty-two

aforesaid and in this act.

SUB-SECTION 5. The offence created by the afore-

going sub sections may be tried in the Circuit Court

for said county upon presentment or indictment