ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

than one year upon the payment of a proportion-
ate part of the license fee hereinbefore provided
for, and licenses issued under this act shall be
transferable as traders' licenses now are under

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the general laws of this state ; provided, that
before any license under this act is assigned or
transferred the assignee shall have complied
with all the provisions of this act required of any
applicant for an original license except the pay-
ment to the clerk of the circuit court of the here-
inbefore mentioned sum of three hundred and
fifty dollars.
SEC. 172. In any prosecution under this act it

Proviso.

shall only be necessary to state that the traverser
did sell or give away spirituous or fermented
liquors, without specifying the particular kind
of liquor.
SEC. 173. All prosecutions for violations of any

Not necessary
to specify.

of the provisions of this act shall be upon pre-
sentment and indictment, except as hereinbefore
specially provided for ; and one-half of all fines
imposed under this act shall be paid to the county
commissioners of Harford county for the use of
said county, and one-half of said fines shall be
paid to the school commissioners of said county
for the use of the public schools under their
control.
SEC. 174. Whenever the word "person" is used
in the preceding sections of this act it shall be

Fines— to
whom paid.

constructed to embrace natural or artificial per-
sons, partnerships, bodies politic, or corporate
clubs, associations of any description, and any
or all persons or entities who can or might obtain
license under this act, or who can or might be
prohibited from selling without compliance with
its provisions, and this act shall be construed
liberally to accomplish its purposes and prevent
the mischiefs occasioned by its infringement
Approved April 4, 1888.

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