THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That sections fifty-
nine and sixty of the said second article of the
Code of Public Local Laws be, and the same are
hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Sections
amended.

Sec. 59. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff of
Anne Arundel county and his deputies, and of the
constables of the city of Annapolis, to exercise the
utmost vigilance in order to detect all violations of
this article in relation to the sale of liquors to mi-
nors and others as forbidden by section fifty-five,
and to report immediately any such violation to
the Judge of the Circuit Court for said county,
who shall forthwith direct the offending party to
be brought before him and shall require him to
give adequate security for his appearance at the
next term of said Court and shall commit such

Duty of sher-
iff and con-
stables.

party to jail in default of such security; and if any
Sheriff or Constable shall neglect to report to the
judge any such violation of the said section as
soon as the same shall come to his knowledge, he
shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars, for each
case of such neglect, to be recovered by any per-
son in the name of the State by action of debt in
said Court.

Penalty.

Sec. 60. All fines imposed and collected under
the provisions of section fifty-five of this article
shall go, one-half to the informer (who is hereby
made a competent witness, ) and the other half shall
be divided equally between the State's Attorney
and the Sheriff or other officer who shall have
made report in the case to the Judge under fifty-
ninth section of this article.

Fines

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

In force.