JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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District No. Three, to take orders for any such liquors,
medicated bitters of alcoholic compound at any time, under
any pretences, in any manner or for any purpose whatever ;
and if any person or persons, firm or corporation within the
said Vienna Election District or Election District No. Three,
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 member of such
firm, and the directors, trustees or managers of such corpora-
tion shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction

CHAP. 190.

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 not less than
three nor more than six months ; but if any such liquors,
medicated bitters or alcoholic compound 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 corpora-
tion shall abate, be quashed or set aside under demurrer,
because lees than the whole number of the members of such
firm or less than the whole number of the 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 jury
trial, or in trials upon appeals from justice of the peace,

Penalty
for violation.

instead of proceeding to trial upon the warrant issued by the
justice, State's Attorney may in every such case, before the
trial begins, prepare and file 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 persons be charged as
the members of any firm or as the directors or managers of
any corporation and shall deny that they are members of such
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, manufactured in Dorchester county

State's
Attorney
may prepare
indictment.