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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tached to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, or
under orders to join or leave the said Academy ;
nor to any student of St. John's College, with-
out the written order of some prof essor of said
college; and any person, corporation or asso-
ciation violating the provisions of this section
shall be liable to indictment in the Circuit
Court for Anne Arundel county, and upon con-
viction thereof, shall be fined a sum not less
than fifty dollars and not more than four hun-
dred dollars, or be confined in jail fora period
not longer than six months, or be both fined
and imprisoned in the discretion of the court,
and shall be confined in jail until the said fine
and cost of prosecution shall be paid; but if
any minor or person referred to in this section
shall, willfully represent that he is of full age,
and that he is not prohibited by this sec-

Selling under
tnisrepres en-
tation.

tion, and thereby shall obtain any spirituous
liquors, and the person selling the same, shall
be able to prove such misrepresentation, the
said person selling to the said minor or other
person so falsely representing himself shall
not suffer any penalty, but shall pay all costs
incurred in such case; provided, that, the act
of any agent under this section shall not be
binding upon his principal, if the court or
jury shall believe that the said act was com-

Contrary to
Instructions.

mitted against the bona fide instructions of
said principal; and the same is hereby de-
clared to be in full force, from the date of the
proclamation hereinbefore provided for, de-
claring the Local Option Law repealed as to
said city.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That section fifty-
eight of article second, of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Anne Arundel county," sub-

To re-enact.

title "Annapolis," as the same was amended
and re-enacted by the acts of eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-five, chapter eighty-seven, be
and the same is hereby revived and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

SEC. 58. "Any one order which may be given
to any minor, under the provisions of the