EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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against the directors, trustees or managers of any corpora-
tion shall abate, be quashed or set aside upon demurrer,
because less than the whole number of the members of
any firm or 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 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 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 member of any firm or as the directors and manager
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

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shall be construed to prevent the sale of peach or apple
brandy, wines or pure and unadulterated apple cider, manu-
factured 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 said fruit was grown.
SEC. 2. And be it farther enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 3, 1906.

Proviso.