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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

How construed

or sale of any such liquors for medicinal purposes by

a pharmacist or druggist, who shall or may obtain a.

license under the license law of the state, upon the

written bona fide prescription of a regular practicing

physician, whose name shall be signed thereto, and

Prescription to

all such subscriptions shall be filed and kept by the

be filed.

pharmacist or druggist, and no prescription shall serve

for more than one purchase; but no physician shall

make or sign any such prescription unless the person

for whom it is made is actually sick, and such liquor

is absolutely required as a medicine; any physician

who shall, on or after the first day of May, eighteen

hundred and eighty-five, make or sign any prescription

When deemed

for such liquor, except as aforesaid, shall be deemed

guilty of a vio-

guilty of a violation of this act, and upon conviction

lation.

thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor

more than two hundred dollars for the first offence,

and not less than two hundred nor more than five

hundred dollars for each subsequent offence; and if

the buyer shall obtain a prescription by misrepresen-

tation he shall likewise be deemed guilty of a viola-

tion of this act, and upon conviction thereof shall be

subject to the same tines as the physician who shall

violate the same; the one-half of said fines to be paid

to the informer, and the residue to the board of county

commissioners of Garrett county, for the use of the

public schools of said county, and said violators shall

be committed to the county jail of said county till

such fines and costs are paid; nor shall anything herein

be construed to prohibit a sale by a pharmacist or drug-

gist in case of extreme illness, when delay may be dan-

gerous to the patient.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That all prosecutions for

Prosecutions—

violations of the provisions of this act, and which are

how conducted

hereby declared to be criminal offences, may be either

upon presentment and indictment, or by trial before

a justice of the peace, who shall have jurisdiction,

original and concurrent, with the circuit court of said

Powers of jus-
tices.

county; and the said justice shall have power to issue
all process, and to do all acts which may be necessary

to the exercise of his said jurisdiction, and may try

and determine all cases whereof he may have jurisdic-

tion, and may pronounce judgment and sentence there-

in, in the same manner and to the same extent, as the

circuit court of said county could do in such cases as

if such cases were tried before said court without the