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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

solvent debtors shall be applicable to cases, on

application to a justice of the peace of said dis-

trict, when the party fined has been confined in

When appli-

jail for such a period as would entitle him to his

cable.

discharge under said law from the county jail, if

confined therein by a judgment of the Circuit

Court, and said party not having been sooner dis-

charged by order of the commissioners.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 467.

AN ACT to forbid the sale or barter (as a beverage

or drink in contradistinction to a medicine) of

Cider or Medicated Bitters, producing intoxica-

tion, or other intoxicating liquors, in Talbot county,

where the sale or bat ter of spirituous or fermented

liquors is now unauthorized, and to regulate the

sale of intoxicating liquors in Talbot county for

medicinal purposes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That it shall be unlawful for any

person to barter or sell any cider or medicated bit-

Where un-
lawful.

ters, producing intoxication, or any other intoxicat-

ing liquors, within the limits of Talbot county, where

now the sale or barter of spirituous or fermented

liquors is unauthorized; provided that nothing

How con-

herein contained shall be construed to prevent the

strued.

compounding or sale of cider, spirituous, fermented

or intoxicating liquors by a regular pharmacist or

druggist having a license for such business, upon the

written bona fide prescription of a regular practic-

ing physician, whose name in full shall be signed

thereto, the date and the name of the person for

whom the prescription is intended; and every such

Prescription
filed and kept.

prescription shall be filed and kept for at least one
year by such pharmacist or druggist, and no such

prescription shall serve for more than one purchase;

no physician shall make or sign any such prescrip-

tion unless the same be requisite and necessary, and