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Chapter 359.
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AN ACT to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors
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and alcoholic beverages within a certain area in
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Baltimore county, opposite the Alberton Cotton
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Mills, in Howard county.
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SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly
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of Maryland, That on and after the first day of May,
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When not law-
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in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, it shall
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ful.
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not be lawful for any person, house, company, associa-
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tion or corporate body to sell, directly or indirectly, or
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to give away at his, her, their or its place of business,
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any spirituous, fermented or intoxicating liquors of any
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origin whatever, or alcoholic bitters, within an area or
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district of territory in Baltimore county, commencing
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at a stone planted on the north side of the Patapsco
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Bounds of area.
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river and near to the bank thereof, opposite to and in
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a northerly direction from the Alberton Cotton Mills,
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in Howard county, and extending two miles in all
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directions in said Baltimore county from the said point
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of commencement.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any person or
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persons, house, company, association or body corpo-
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rate shall sell, directly or indirectly, at any place, or
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give away at his, her, their or its place of business any
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spirituous or fermented liquors, or alcoholic bitters, or
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intoxicating drinks of any kind within the limits of
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Penalty for vio-
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the said area or district in Baltimore county, on and
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lation.
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after the first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred
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and eighty-four, he, she, they or it shall, on conviction
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thereof, forfeit and pay on the first conviction a fine
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of not less than fifty dollars nor more than three hun-
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dred dollars and costs of prosecution, or instead of
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such fine, imprisonment in the county jail for thirty
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.days, or both, in the discretion of the court; and on
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