428 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

dispensaries of said City as shall comply with the provisions of
the succeeding section.

440 Such fines shall be divided equally among those in-
corporated dispensaries which shall, within ten days after the
tenth day of November in each year, file in the office of the
Sheriff of Baltimore City separate reports, the truth of each of
which shall be sworn to by one of the officers of the dispensary
filing the same, before any officer of the State of Maryland au-
thorized by law to administer oaths, showing that in the year
preceding such tenth day of November, the said dispensary had
under its charge more than two thousand separate persons as
patients, and that its said dispensary was open for the treat-
ment of disease two hours daily, and for the free distribution
of medicine to the poor six hours daily on each week day and
two continuous hours on each Sunday in said year.

441. In case said fines shall not be claimed by any such
dispensary in the manner specified in the two preceding sec-
tions, then said fines shall be paid by the Sheriff to the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore.

442. The said Sheriff's official bond shall be responsible for
the faithful payment of said money as hereinbefore provided,
and shall be liable for any default in any duty herein required
to be performed by him.

443. No person shall hereafter be allowed to give security
for the payment of any fine and costs imposed by the Criminal
Court of Baltimore, but any person who shall be sentenced by
the court to the payment of any fine and costs shall stand com-
mitted until they are paid ; provided, that if such fine and costs
are less than ten dollars, the person so sentenced shall be dis-
charged from custody at the end of thirty days from the date of
their imposition, if no imprisonment has also been ordered by
the court, or. at the end of thirty days from the expiration of the
time for which said person shall have been ordered to be im-
prisoned, upon sufficient proof shown to the court that the per-
son imprisoned is unable to pay the said fine and costs; and
provided also, that if the said fine and costs are more than ten