LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section two hundred and sixteen of article ten of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Dorchester
County," sub-title "Liquors and Intoxicating Drinks," in so far as

Repeal.

the same apply to district number five of Dorchester county, be
and the same are hereby repealed, and that a new section to be
called section 219 A., be and the same is hereby added to said
article ten, to come in after section 219, and enacted so as to
read as follows :

New section.

219 A. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm
or corporation, directly or indirectly to sell or otherwise dispose
of by way of barter, within election district number five of
Dorchester county, any spirituous, vinous, malt, fermented or
other intoxicating liquors, medicated bitters or any compound
of which alcohol is a chief or principal ingredient, and it shall
also be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation
within said election district number five, to take orders for any
such liquors, medicated bitters or alcoholic compounds, at any
time under any pretense, in any manner or for any purpose
whatever, and if any person or persons, firm or corporation
within the said election district number five shall directly or
indirectly sell or otherwise dispose of, by way of barter, any
such liquors, medicated bitters or alcoholic compounds, or shall
therein take any order or orders therefor, then such person or
persons, the members of such firm and the directors, trustees or
managers of such corporation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
on conviction thereof in Circuit Court of Dorchester County or
before any justice of the peace thereof, shall for every offense
be confined in the Maryland House of Correction, for not less
than three nor more than six months; but if any such liquors,
medicated bitters or alcoholic compounds be sold on Sunday or
to any minor, the party or parties so offending on conviction,
as aforesaid, shall for every offense be confined in the Maryland
House of Correction for not less than six months. In any in-
dictment, warrant or other charge, the members of any firm
shall be designated, as in civil suits, and in the case of corpora-
tions the directors, trustees or managers thereof may be simply
designated as directors, trustees or manager of such corporation,
and no case against the members of any firm or against the
directors, trustees or managers of any corporation, shall abate,
be quashed or set aside under demurrer, because less than the
whole number of the members of such firm or less than the
whole number of directors, trustees or managers of such corpo-
ration have been charged or arrested, but such as are charged

Where unlaw-
ful to sell
liquors.