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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

rection for a term not exceeding six months, or until

such fine or fines and costs are paid.

SUB-SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person or

persons or body corporate, who shall in any way bar-

ter or sell intoxicating drinks of any kind or descrip-

tion in said Kent county, except as hereinafter pro-

Fines and pun-

vided, such person or persons or body corporate, on

ishments

conviction thereof, shall be fined as provided in sec-

tion three of said act of eighteen hundred and seven-

ty-eight, chapter one hundred and sixty-one, and pun-

ished on non-payment of such fine or fines, as provi-

ded in sub-section one of this act.

SUB-SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That nothing con-

tained in this act or in the said act of the General As-

sembly of Maryland, passed at the January session in

the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, chapter

How construed

one hundred and sixty-one, shall be construed to pre-

vent the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors, alco-

holic bitters or intoxicating drinks in Kent county, for

medicinal purposes, by a regular pharmacist and drug-

gist having a license for such business under the laws

of this state, provided such sale be made only upon

the written bona fide prescription of a regular physi-

cian practicing in said county, containing the name of

the person for whom the liquor, alcoholic bitters or

other intoxicants is prescribed, the kind and quantity

of the same, the date on which the prescription is

made, and the full ordinary name of the physician

making it, all written in ink; the date of filling such

Prescription to
be endorsed.

prescription shall be endorsed on the back thereof, by

the pharmacist and druggist filling the same, in ink,

who shall file and keep all such prescriptions filed

separate from all other prescriptions, and exhibit the

same to the state's attorney, or any grand jury or jus-

tice of the peace of said county, calling for the pro-

duction thereof; and no such prescription shall serve

for more than one purchase; no physician shall make

or sign any such prescription, unless the person for

whom it is made is actually sick, or such liquor or al-

Required as a

coholic bitters or intoxicants is absolutely required as

medicine.

a medicine; in no case shall a pharmacist and drug-

gist permit any liquor, alcoholic bitters or other in-

toxicating drinks obtained under such prescription, to

be drunk anywhere on his premises except in cases of

sudden illness; all pharmacists and druggists shall be

liable for the acts of their clerks, agents and assis-