452 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

nor more than five hundred dollars, and in addition to such
fine be imprisoned in the county jail for not less than thirty
days, nor more than ninety days, in the discretion of the court;
and on failure to pay any such fine as herein prescribed, he shall
be committed to jail of said county until such fine and costs are
paid.

249. Nothing contained in the two preceding sections shall
be construed to prevent the compounding or sale of any such
liquors for medicinal purposes by a pharmacist or druggist,
who shall or may obtain a license under the license laws of this
State, and upon a written bona fide prescription of a regular
practicing physician, whose name shall be signed thereto; and
all such prescriptions shall be filed and kept by such pharma-
cist or druggist, and no prescription shall serve for more than
one purchase, but no physician make or sign any such pre-
scription unless the person for whom it is made is actually sick,
and such liquor is absolutely necessary as a medicine; any
physician who shall make or sign any prescription for such
liquor except as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a violation
of said sections, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not
less than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars for
the first offense, and not less than two hundred dollars, nor
more than five hundred dollars for each subsequent offense; and
if the buyer shall obtain a prescription by misrepresentation, he
shall likewise be deemed guilty of a violation of said sections,
and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to the same fine as
the physician who shall violate the same, and said violators
shall be committed to the county jail of said county until such
fine and costs are paid; but nothing herein shall be construed to
prohibit a sale by a pharmacist or druggist in case of extreme
illness, when delay may be dangerous to the patient.

250. All prosecutions for violations of the three preceding
sections, which are hereby declared to be criminal offenses, may
be either upon presentment and indictment, or trial before a
justice of the peace, who shall have jurisdiction original and
concurrent with the Circuit Court for said county; and the
said justice shall have power to issue all process, and to do all
acts which may be necessary to the exercise of his said jurisdic-
tion, and may try and determine all cases whereof he may have
jurisdiction, and may pronounce judgment and sentence therein
in the same manner and to the same extent as the Circuit Court
for said county could do in such cases, if such cases were
tried before said court without the intervention of a jury; pro-
vided, however, that if any person, when brought before any
such justice having jurisdiction of the case, shall, before trial
for the alleged offense, pray a jury trial, or if the State's At-