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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

each or any member of such company, corporation or

association shall be liable, and shall suffer imprison-

ment as prescribed in this act for persons violating

the same.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That no person, persons,

company, corporation or association shall deposit or

have in his, her, their or its possession any spirituous

or fermented liquors, or alcoholic bitters, or intoxi-

cating liquors of any kind, with intent to sell or give

away the same at his, her, their or its place of busi-

Corporations

ness, in violation of law, or with intent that the same

or associations
prohibited.

shall be sold or given away by any person in violation

of law, or in, aid of any person or persons for such

purposes; and any person, persons, company, corpora-

tion or association violating the provisions of this sec-

tion shall be subject to the like fines and punishments

as are prescribed for violation of the fourth section

of this act.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That nothing herein con-

tained shall be construed to prevent the compounding

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

Prescriptions

all such prescriptions shall be filed and kept by the

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 prescrip-

When deemed

tion for such liquor, except as aforesaid, shall be

guilty.

deemed guilty of a violation of this act, and upon con-

viction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dol-

lars 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 misrepre-

sentation, he shall likewise be deemed guilty of a vio-

lation of this act, and upon conviction thereof shall be

subject to the same fines as the physician who shall

Fines — how

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

disposed of.

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

school commissioners of St. Mary's county, for the use