ELIIIU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

violate any of the provisions of sections five and
six aforesaid within the limits of Harford county,

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after the first day of December, in the year
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, he, she, it
or they shall, on each and every conviction
thereof, forfeit and pay a fine of not less than
one hundred dollars nor more than six hundred
dollars and costs of prosecution, and be confined
in the Maryland House of Correction for not less
than six months nor more than twelve months,
or, in the discretion of the court, forfeit and pay
a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor
more than six hundred dollars and costs of pros-
ecution, and failing to pay such fine or fines and
costs forthwith, shall be sentenced to be confined
in the Maryland House of Correction for a term
not less than six months nor more than twelve
months, or until such fine or fines and costs are
paid.
SEC. 8. That nothing in the preceding sections
hereof shall be construed to prevent the com-
pounding or sale of any such liquors by a regu-

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lar pharmacist or druggist who may or shall
have obtained a license therefor, . under the
license law of this state, upon the written bona
fide prescription of a regular practicing physi-
cian of said county, whose name shall be signed
thereto, and all such prescriptions shall be filed
by said 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, after the first day of
December, in the year eighteen hundred and
eighty eight, make or sign any prescription for
such liquor, except as aforesaid, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction

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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 or fines and
costs of prosecution are paid ; and if the buyer
shall obtain a prescription by misrepresentation,
he shall likewise be deemed guilty of a violation
of this act, and upon conviction thereof shall
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