EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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than two months or more than twelve months, in the discre-
tion of the Court or justice of the peace before whom the
case may be tried, for each and every offense, and all fines
imposed and collceted shall be paid over to the Mayor and
City Council of Laurel for the use of said town.
SEC. 7. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to
prevent the compounding of liquors in a prescription or the
sale of liquor by pharmacists or druggists upon a written

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and bona fide prescription of a regularly practicing physician
of medicine, whose name must be signed thereto, and each
prescription shall be numbered and filed in regular order,
and no prescription shall serve for more than one purchase ;
no physician shall give any such prescription unless in the
honest opinion of said physician the patient is sick and
needs it as medicine, and any physician who shall under any
other circumstances give such a prescription, and any phar-
macist or druggist who shall under any other circumstances
sell or barter any spirituous or fermented liquors shall each
be liable to the penalties imposed by the preceding Section 6
of this Act, and no druggist or pharmacist shall sell or
barter or keep for sale or barter any intoxicating liquors
except for such prescriptions.
SEC. 8. All prosecutions for violations of the preceding
section of this Act may be either upon presentment and

How to be con-
strued.

indictment or by trial before a justice of the peace in and
for Prince George's county who shall have jurisdiction,
original and concurrent with the Circuit Court for Prince
George's County; and any justice of the peace for said county
shall have power to issue all process and to do all acts which
may be necessary to the exercise of his jurisdiction, as now
prescribed by law, and to commit all offenders till fines and
costs are paid; and any person or persons who shall be
brought before any justice of the peace, charged with and
convicted of a violation of any provision or provisions of this
Act, who shall feel aggrieved by the judgment of said jus-
tice, may pray an appeal to the Circuit Court for Prince
George's County within ten days, and either party be entitled
to a jury trial, and an appeal may be taken by State's Attor-

All prosecu-
tions may be
upon pre-
sentment,
etc.

ney, and said justice shall then hold said person or persons
so convicted and all witnesses summoned in the case under
recognizance to appear at the next regular jury term of the
Circuit Court aforesaid, or commit them in default of bail

Appeal may be
taken.