FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

term not less than six months nor more than twelve months,
or until such fine and costs are paid.

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SEC. 183. Nothing in the four preceding sections shall be
construed to prevent the compounding or sale of any such
liquors by any regular pharmacist or druggist, who may or
shall have obtained a license therefor under the license laws of
this State, upon the written bona fide prescription of a regular
practicing physician of said county, whose name shall be signed
thereto; and all such prescriptions shall be tiled by such
druggist or pharmacist, and kept by him, and no prescription
shall serve for more than one purchase; but no physician shall
make or sign any such prescription, unless the person for
Whom it shall be made is actually: sick, or such liquor is
absolutely required as a medicine; any physician who shall
make or sign any prescription for such liquor, except as afore-
said, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor
more than three hundred dollars, and costs of prosecution, and
be committed to the county jail of said county until such fine
and costs are paid; nor shall anything in the said sections be
construed to prohibit a sale by a physician or druggist of such
liquors, to be used by or for a sick person in case of extreme
illness, when delay may be dangerous to the patient; nor
prevent the sale by a pharmacist or druggist of wine to be
used for sacramental purposes solely.

Provisions as
to druggists.

SEC. 184. In the trial of any person, or any house, company
or body corporate, for a violation of any of the five preceding
sections, it shall be lawful for the State to prove that such
person, house, company, association or body corporate, on trial,
has or have paid, if such be the case, a special tax to the
government of the United States under the Internal Revenue
Laws, whereof, upon or for his or its business, as brewers or
retail dealers in liquors, or wholesale dealers in liquors, or
retail dealers in malt liquors, or wholesale dealers in malt
liquors, as the case may be, in Cecil county, for a period of
time within which such violation has occurred, and to prove
that he or it has or have registered his or its business for said
period, as such dealers, with the Collector of Internal Revenue
for the district of which Cecil county shall form a part,
and that he or it made application to said collector to be so
registered; and it shall be lawful for the State in such case to
offer in evidence said Internal Revenue Laws relating to said
special taxes and the payment of said special tax upon, and the

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may prove.