ART. 24.] WORCESTER COUNTY. 1169

papers published in said county, and it shall not be lawful for
any license to sell spirituous, fermented or intoxicating liquors,
alcoholic bitters or compounds, to be issued in Worcester
county after the last day of April, 1908.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if the returns of the
election provided for in section one of this Act shall show that
a majority of the votes cast at said election were against the
sale of intoxicating liquors in Worcester county, that it shall
be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, corporation or
association of persons, under any pretense whatever, directly
or indirectly, to barter, sell, give away or otherwise dispose of
it at a place of business, or keep at any place whatsoever for
the purpose of bartering or selling any spirituous, fermented
or intoxicating liquors, alcoholic bitters or compounds within
the limits of Worcester county; and it shall also be unlawful
for any person or persons, firm, corporation or association of
persons under any pretense whatever, within the limits of the
county aforesaid, to take orders for any spirituous, fermented
or intoxicating liquors, alcoholic bitters or compounds, or for
any person or persons, firm, corporation or association of per-
sons, to operate as distributing or collecting agents for any
spirituous, fermented or intoxicating liquors, alcoholic bitters
or compounds.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted. That if any person or
persons, firm, corporation or association of persons within
said county shall violate any of the provisions of this Act, such
person or persons, firm, corporation or association shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and said person or persons, members,
trustees, directors or managers of said firm, corporation or
association shall, upon conviction by the Circuit Court for
Worcester county, be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more
than three hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in the county
jail or the Maryland House of Correction not less than thirty-
days nor more than six months.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That in any prosecution
for violating the provisions of this Act it shall be sufficient
to prove that the liquors disposed of did intoxicate or that
they contained over three per cent, of alcohol; that the pos-
session of a United States internal revenue stamp for the
business of dealing in liquors by a person or persons, firm,
corporation or association alleged to be violating the provi-
sions of this Act, shall be prima facie evidence of guilt, and the
testimony of two witnesses that they saw the name or names of
the person or persons, firm, corporation or association in the
records of the internal revenue office among the names of