796

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

district, whose name shall be signed thereto; and every such
prescription shall be filed and kept by such pharmacist or
druggist, and no one prescription shall serve for more than one
purchase; but no physician shall make or sign any such pre-
scription unless the person for whom it is made is actually sick,
or such liquor is absolutely required as a medicine; and any
physician who shall, after first day of May next succeeding
said election, make or sign any prescription for such liquor,
except as provided for herein, shall be deemed guilty of a
violation of this act, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars and cost
for each offense, and be committed by the court wherein such
conviction is had, until such fine and cost are paid; nor shall
anything herein contained be construed to prohibit a sale by
such pharmacist or druggist in case of extreme illness, when
delay would be dangerous to the patient.

Violations
and penal-
ties.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That if on and after the said first
day of May next succeeding said election any person or persons,
firm, company or body corporate shall in any election district
of said county wherein a majority of the voter as aforesaid
have been cast " against license," and proclamation thereof
made as aforesaid, sell or otherwise barter or dispose of, directly
or indirectly, any spirituous, fermented or other intoxicating
liquors or medicated bitters producing intoxication, or any com-
pound of which alcohol forms the chief or principal ingredient
as aforesaid, and except as aforesaid he, she or they shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined for each and every offense not less than fifty or
more than one hundred dollars, and for every offense subsequent
to any conviction of a violation of this law, the minimum as well
as the maximum of said fine shall be double the cost of every
conviction, to be in every case paid by the prisoner or person
found guilty of a violation of this law, and in every case the
party is to stand committed until his fines and cost are paid ;
and for a second and every subsequent offense the person or
persons so offending shall, in addition to said fine and cost, be
imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than six
months, the one-half of said fine imposed in this and the pre-
ceding section to be paid by the sheriff to the actual informer
under order of the court, and the other half to be paid over to
the proper authorities for the support of the public schools of
the said county; and it shall be the duty of the said clerk of
court to inform the Grand Jury of any previous conviction or
convictions of any person or persons so offending upon request