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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

months nor more than six months, or both, in the discretion of
the court, for each and every offense, and the person in posses-
sion of the premises, house or place at the time the violation
occnrred, shall be deemed prima facie guilty of a misde-
meanor, and on conviction thereof shall be subject to the same
fines and penalties as the actual violator.

213 E. And be it enacted, That any person or persons or

Guilty of mis-
demeanor.

members of any body corporate that shall have obtained a
license to sell liquors under the provisions of this Act and shall
violate any of the promises or provisions of section 213 A of
this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof either before a justice of the peace of the
county aforesaid or in the circuit court therefor, upon present-
ment and indictment, or upon appeal from the decision and sen-
tence of such justice, and shall be liable to a fine of not less
than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and costs,
or imprisonment in the county jail of said county for not more
than sixty days, or with tine and imprisonment, at the discre-
tion of the court or justice trying the case for each and every
offence, and shall in addition thereto -have his, their or its
license suppressed by sentence of said court or justice, and
after conviction and suppression of license the offender or
offenders shall not again sell or offer to sell in said town any
such liquors aforesaid, under the penalties provided in the last
preceding section for the period of five years from the date of
conviction, unless the said court of justice shall in passing sen-
tence name a shorter period of time, which they are hereby
authorized to do, but which shall in no case be lees than one
year, and in which event the offender shall not sell in said town
as last aforesaid and under the penalties last aforesaid, for the
period of time so fixed by said court or justice, and in all cases
of conviction the offender or offenders shall by the sentence of
the court or justice stand cemmitted until the fine and costs
imposed are paid, or until and unless in any case of any convic-
tion and appeal taken therefrom, a good and sufficient recogni-
zance bond is furnished by the party convicted to prosecute hig
appeal with effect in the names in such case already made and
provided by law ; and in all cases where such fines and costs
shall have been imposed, not paid within thirty days, the bond
of the party or parties convicted filed with the clerk as prelimi-
nary to the obtaining a license to sell liquors shall be liable for
the payment of the same, the said fines and costs to be collected
by the State's attorney of said county by a suit in the name of
the State of Maryland for the use of the County Commissioners