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person for whom it shall be made is actually sick or such
liquor is absolutely required as a medicine; any physician who
shall make or sign any prescription for any such liquor, except
such as is to be used strictly as medicine as aforesaid, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than
three hundred dollars, and costs of prosecution, and be com-
mitted to the county jail, until such fines and costs are paid ;
nor shall anything in the said sections be construed to prohibit
a sale by such druggist of such liquor to be used by or for a
sick person in ease of extreme illness, when delay may be
dangerous to the patient; provided, that if any person shall
obtain from any druggist any such liquor under false pretense
of any kind, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and on conviction shall be fined and be liable to be
fined in all the penalties of this section.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That in the trial of any person,

Evidence in
trial or
cases

or any house, company or body corporate, for a violation of
any of the five preceding sections, it shall be lawful for the
State to prove that such person, house, company, association
or body corporate, on trial, has or have paid, if such be the
case, a special tax to the Government of the United States,
under the internal revenue laws thereof, upon or for his or its
business as brewers or retail dealers in liquors or wholesale
dealers in liquors, or retail dealers in malt liquors or wholesale
dealers in malt liquors, as the case may be, in Wicomico county
for a period of time within which such violations has occurred,
and to prove that he or it has or have registered his or its busi-
ness for said period, as such dealers, with the Collector of
Internal Revenue for the district of which Wicomico county
shall form a part; that he or it made application to said Col-
lector to be so registered; and it shall be lawful for the State,
in such case, to offer in evidence said internal revenue laws re-
lating to said special taxes, and the payment of said special tax
upon; and the registering of his or its said business may be
proved by a certificate of said Collector or any of his deputies,
or by the sworn testimony of him, or any of them, and the
copy of the application of any person, house, company, asso-
ciation or body corporate, for registering on the said revenue
laws, made and attested by the said collector, or any of his
deputies, shall be prima facie proof of such application.

Duty of con-
stables,
sheriff, etc.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
any constable, police officer, sheriff, deputy sheriff, or any such
other officer in the said county, town, city or election district