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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tion of this provision such person or persons,
corporation, house, company or association,
their agents and servants, shall, on conviction,
be subject to the penalty or penalties provided
for iu section four of this act.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That nothing herein
contained shall be construed to prevent the
compounding or sale of any such liquors for
medicinal purposes by a pharmacist and drug-
gist who shall or may obtain a license under

Druggists.

the license laws of this State for the prosecu-
tion of the business of pharmacy, 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 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 deemed by said
physician necessary as a medicine; any physi-
cian who shall make or sign any prescription
for liquor, except as aforesaid, shall be deemed
guilty of a violation of this act, and on con-
viction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty

Misdemeanor.

dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for
the first offence and not less than two hundred
dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for
each subsequent offence; and if the buyer
shall obtain a prescription by misrepresenta-
tion he shall likewise be deemed guilty of a,
violation of this act, and upon conviction
thereof shall be subject to the same fine as a
physician who shall violate the same; the one-
half of said fine to be paid to the informer,
and the residue to the Board of School Com-
missioners of said county for the benefit of the
Public Schools thereof, and said violators shall

Penaity.

be committed to the county Jail of said county
until such fine and costs are paid; nor shall
anything herein be construed to prohibit a sale
by a pharmacist or druggist in case of extreme
illness where delay may be dangerous to the
patient.