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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

registering of his or its said business may be proved by a cer-
tificate of said collector, or any of his deputies, or by the sworn
testimony of him or any of them, and the copy of the appli-
cation of any person, house, company, association or body
corporate, for registry under said revenue laws, made and
attested by said collector or any of his deputies, shall be prima
facie proof of such application.

Penalty.

SEC. 185. If any druggist or pharmacist shall violate any of
the preceding sections, he shall be liable to the same penalties
which are set forth in section one hundred and eighty-two.

Fines, how
applied.

SEC. 186. One-half of all such fines shall be paid to the
informer, and the balance shall be paid to the Board of School
Commissioner's of the county, for the use of the public schools
therein.

Powers of Jus-
tices of the
Peace.

SEC. 187. All prosecutions for the violations of any of the
provisions of this sub-title of this article shall be upon pre-
sentment and indictment; but any justice of the peace of the
county shall have the same authority to receive information of
violations thereof, and to take recognizances and bail, or to
commit, as is how exercised by justices of the peace of the
county under the Public General Laws of this State.

Indictments.

SEC. 188. In any indictment for violation of the provisions
of this sub-title of this article, it shall be necessary, except in
the ease of cider, to specify the particular kind of liquor which
any person, house, company, association or body corporate,
bartered, sold or gave away, or solicited or received orders for
the purchase of, or kept deposited, or had with the intent to
barter, sell or give away, or that the same had been bartered,
sold or given away, in violation of said provisions; but it shall
be sufficient if the indictment set forth that the traverser bar-
tered, sold or gave away, or solicited, or received orders for
the purchase of or kept deposited or had with the intent to
barter, sell or give away, any spirituous or fermented liquors, or
intoxicating drinks, or with intent that the same be bartered,
sold or given away in violation of said provisions.

Approved February 9th, 1894.