EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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the said justice of the peace or clerk of the court, upon the
direction of the court as aforesaid shall issue his warrant in
which the house, building or other place in which the viola-
tion is alleged to have occurred, shall be specifically described,
diverted to the sheriff or some constable of said county com-
manding him thoroughly to search the described house,
building or other place, and the appurtenances thereof, and
if any such shall there be found, to take into hie possession
and safely keep, to be produced as evidence when required,
all intoxicating liquors, if the same shall be found in quan-
tities and under conditions to suggest that it is kept for sale,
and all the means for dispensing the same. All the para-
phernalia or part of the paraphernalia of a bar room or
drinking saloon of intoxicants, and any United States Inter-
nal Revenue tax receipt for the sale of intoxicating liquor
effective for the period of time covering the alleged offence
and forthwith report in writing all the facts to the State's
Attorney for Prince George's county; and any such intoxica-
ting liquors, or the means for dispensing the same, or the
paraphernalia of a bar room or drinking saloon, or any
United States Internal Revenue tax receipt for the sale of
intoxicating liquors effective as aforesaid, shall constitute
prima facie evidence of the violation of the provisions of
Section 5 of the Act as charged or presented; if the accused
shall be found guilty the intoxicating liquors so seized of

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him, her, it or them shall, after the trial and time for writ of
error, if no writ of error is taken, be destroyed by the
sheriff, and the other property be held as the property of
said accused or owner; if the accused be found not guilty
the whole shall be held as his, her, its or their property or
the property of the real owner.

SEC. 11. The bailiffs of said town of Laurel shall have

Liquor to be
destroyed.

the power to arrest all offenders violating the provisions of
this Act, and are hereby vested with all the power possessed
by constables to arrest, hold and commit an offender; and
every bailiff acting after May first, nineteen hundred and
six, shall, in addition to the oath now required by law make
oath before a justice of the peace to well and truly enforce
to the utmost of his ability the provisions of this Act, and
prosecute all violators of it and be allowed the costs or
fees allowed constables, and said oath shall be filed among
the records of town, and be required as a qualification for
the office.

Bailiffs vested
with the
power of con-
stables.