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strance against the granting thereof, and the time and hour of
filing the same, whether it be granted or refused.

SEC. 54H. Druggists and apothecaries shall not be required
to obtain a license under the provisions of this Act, but they
shall not sell intoxicating liquors, except on the written pre-
scription of a regular physician nor more than once on any
one prescription of a physician, and every druggist or apothe-
cary shall keep a book for the special purpose, and enter therein
the date of every sale of intoxicating liquor made by him, the
person to whom sold, the kind, quantity and price thereof, and
the purpose for which it was sold, and shall file and preserve
the prescription. Any failure to comply with the provisions of
this section, or produce said book and prescription before the
court or any justice of the peace when ordered so to do, shall
render said druggist or apothecary so failing, liable to the same
penalties as if he had sold intoxicating liquors without a
license. And any physician who shall wilfully prescribe any
intoxicating liquors as a beverage for persons of known intem-
perate habits, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con-
viction thereof shall be subject to the same penalties prescribed
for licensees who furnish, sell or give intoxicating liquors to
persons of intemperate habits.

SEC. 54I. No person having a license under the provisions of
this Act shall sell, give or barter in Carroll county aforesaid
any spirituous or fermented liquors to any person who is a
minor or under twenty-one years of age, nor knowingly sell,
give or barter to any person any spirituous or fermented liquors
to be drunk by any person who is a minor or under twenty-one
years of age, or knowingly allow upon the premises occupied
by such licensee any person who is a minor or under twenty-
one years of age to drink any spirituous or fermented liquors,
sold, bartered or given by him, nor shall any such licensee allow
any person who is a minor or under twenty-one years of age,
not being the ward, child or employee of such licensee, to fre-
quent, loaf or loiter upon or about his premises where spiritu-
ous or fermented liquors are sold. No licensee under this Act
shall sell, furnish or give away any spirituous or fermented
liquors to any habitual drunkard or person visibly affected by
intoxicating liquor, or to any person whose parent or parents,
guardian, husband, wife, son, daughter, brother or sister, or
committee, shall have given written notice that such person is
of intemperate habits and requesting such licensee not to sell
to him or her, nor shall any person or persons doing business
under a license issued under the provisions of this Act permit
any other person who has been refused a license, or whose