HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

SEC. 8. If any person or persons, house, com-
pany, association or body corporate, shall vio-
late any of the provisions of sections five, six
and seven aforesaid, within the limits of Cecil
county, after the first day of January, in the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, he,
she, it or they shall, on each and every convic-
tion thereof, forfeit and pay a fine of not less

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than one hundred dollars nor more than six
hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, and
be confined in the Maryland House of Correc-
tion for not less than six months nor more
than twelve months, or, in the discretion of
the Court, forfeit and pay a fine of not less
than one hundred dollars nor more than six
hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, and
failing to pay such fine or fines and costs f orth-
\vith, shall be sentenced to be confined in the
Maryland Houtie of Correction for a term not
less than six months nor more than twelve
months, or until such fine or fines and costs are
paid.

SEC. 9. Nothing in the preceding sections
hereof shall be construed to prevent the com-
pounding or sale of any such liquors by a regu-
lar pharmacist or druggist who may or shall
have obtained a license therefor under the
license laws of this State, upon the written bona
fide prescription of a regular practicing physi-
cian, of said county, whose name shall be signed

Penalty.

thereto, and all such prescriptions shall be
filed by said druggist or pharmacist and kept
by him, 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 shall be made is ac-
tually sick, or such liquor is absolutely re-
quired as a medicine; any physician who
shall, after the first day of January, in the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, make
or sign any prescription for such liquor, ex-
cept as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, upon conviction thereof shall
be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more

Not to apply

to druggists.