ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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that such applicant or applicants shall, in addition to

the amount to be paid the State of Mary land, shall

also pay to the clerk of the said circuit court the

further sum of one hundred dollars for the use of said

public roads of said county.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted. That no spirituous or

fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters shall be sold in

any election district of said county except as provided

for by section five, and also upon the following terms :

that each and every applicant, person or persons,

house, corporation, company or association, shall be

The terms on

recommended to the said clerk by five respectable

which it can be
sold.

freeholders of his or their immediate vicinity as a fit

person to traffic in the article, and that in no event

shall any person sell such article on the Sabbath day,

commonly called Sunday, and for the violation of this

provision such person, natural or artificial, shall be

subjected to the penalty pravided for in section four

of this act.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That nothing herein

contained shall be construed to prevent the compound-

ing or sale of any such liquors for medicinal purposes

by a pharmacist and druggist, who shall or may ob-

How construed

tain a license under the license law 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 be filed and

kept by such pharmacist and druggist, and no pre-

scription 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 deemed by said physician necessary

as a medicine; any physician who shall make or sign

any prescription for such liquor, except as aforesaid,

shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this act, and

When deemed
guilty.

upon conviction 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

misrepresentation, he shall likewise be deemed guilty

of a violation of this act, und upon conviction thereof

shall be subject to the same fine as the physician who

shall violate the same; the one-half of said fine to be

Fine — how dis-

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

posed of.

school commissioners of said county, for the benefit of