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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

or prohibited (as now permitted or prohibited by

law), and not otherwise, in said county.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That any person or

persons, house, company, association or body cor-

porate who shall sell, directly or indirectly, at

any place, or give away at his, her, their or its

Penalty for

place of business any spirituous or fermented liquors,

Violation.

or alcoholic bitters, or intoxicating drinks of any kind

within the limits of said election districts numbers

two, three and five, where a majority of all the votes

cast shall have been cast against the sale of intoxi-

cating liquors, on or after the first day of May, in

the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, he, she,

they or it shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and

pay on the first conviction a fine of not less than

fifty dollars nor more than three hundred dollars

and costs of prosecution, and imprisonment in the

county jail for thirty days; and on the second and

every subsequent conviction not less than one hun-

dred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars,

and in addition to such fine imprisonment in the

Subsequent

county jail for not less than sixty nor more than ninety

convictions.

days, in the discretion of the court; and on failure

to pay any such fine as herein described, he, she or

they shall remain in the jail of said county after

the term of imprisonment until such fine and costs

are paid; one half of the fine imposed for the vio-

lation of this act shall go to the informer, and the

residue to the Board of School Commissioners of

said county for the benefit of the public schools

therein.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That nothing herein

contained shall be construed to prevent the com-

How con-
strued.

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 this

State, and upon a written bona fide prescription of

a regular practicing physician, whose name shall be

signed thereto; and all such prescriptions shall bo

filed and kept by such pharmacist or druggist, and no

File prescrip-
tions.

prescription shall serve for more than one purchase ;

but no physician shall make or sign any such pre-

scription unless the person for whom it is made is

actually sick, and such liquor is absolutely necessary

as a medicine. Any physician who shall, after the

said first day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-