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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 161.

tinder any pretenses, in any manner or for any purpose whatso-
ever ; and if any person or persons, firm or corporation within
the said election district number seven shall, directly or
indirectly, sell or otherwise dispose of, by way of barter, any
such liquors, medicated bitters or alcoholic compounds, or
cider, or shall therein take any order or orders therefor, then
such person or persons, the members of such firm, and the

Guilty of
misdemeanor

directors, trustees or managers of such corporation, shall be
guilty of misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in the
Circuit Court for 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, or cider 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
indictment, warrant or other charge the members of any
firm shall be designated as in civil suits, and in the case of
corporations, the directors, trustees or managers thereof may
be simply designated as directors, trustees or managers of
such corporation, and in 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 the members
of such firm or less than the whole number of under demurrer,
because less than the whole number of directors, trustees or
managers of such corporation have been charged or arrested,
but such as are charged and have been arrested, may be tried,
and those who have not been charged or those who being
charged have not been arrested may, upon being charged and
arrested, be tried. In trials in the Circuit Court where the
cases have been removed to said Court for a jury for trial, or
in trials upon appeals from justice of the peace instead of
proceeding to trial upon the warrant issued by the justice,
the State's Attorney may, in every such case, before the trial
begins, prepare and tile in the same an information or charge
in the nature of an indictment, and the case shall be tried
thereunder ; and if any person or persona be charged as the
member of any firm or as the directors or managers of any
corporation and shall deny that they are members of such

Proviso.

firm or are directors, trustees or managers of such corporation,
they shall be required to sustain such denials by evidence ; and
provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to
prevent the sale of peach or apple brandy, wines or pure and
unadulterated apple cider, manur'actnred in Dorchester county
from fruit grown therein, in quantities not less than one
gallon, by the grower or growers of such fruit, upon the
premises where the said fruit was grown.