ART. 19.] ST. MARY'S COUNTY. 985

made to the County Treasurer shall be appropriated by the
County Commissioners to the road fund of said county, or to the
payment of the interest and principal of the public debt of said
county. Said license fee shall cover for the entire year begin-
ning from the first day of May in each year and running to the
first day of May of the succeeding year, and all licenses taken out
for a short period shall pay one-half of the amounts aforesaid
for each month or part of month intervening between the date of
each month or part of month intervening between the date of
the application for said license and the succeeding first day of
May; provided, however, that nothing contained in this or the
next succeeding sections shall apply to the sale of liquors under
any decree of court or under any execution or any judgment of
any court, or to sales by auctioneers made in pursuance of regu-
lar judicial proceedings.

SEC. 79B. No person with or without license shall sell any
kind of liquor between midnight on Saturday night and six
o'clock on the following Monday morning, nor sell or give away
any intoxicating liquor of any kind on election day, nor to any
minor at any time, except upon the written order of the parent
or guardian of such minor, nor shall he permit any card play-
ing, throwing of dice or gambling of any kind in his or their
store or barroom, nor to any person known to him to be intoxi-
cated at any time. Any person or persons, corporation, com-
pany or association that sell any intoxicating liquor without a
license as above prescribed, or violating any of the provisions of
the aforegoing sections shall, upon conviction, be fined not less
than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00)
and costs for each violation, and upon conviction before the
Circuit Court or before a justice of the peace, who shall have
jurisdiction as in other cases of misdemeanors not punishable
by confinement in the penitentiary, shall be committed to jail
until such fine and costs are paid, or for a period of forty days,
whichever may first occur; and the Circuit Court for St. Mary's
county may at any time, upon the recommendation of the grand
jury of said county, suppress the license of any dealer in intoxi-
cating liquors, as hereinbefore defined, either as to the person
or place, or both, for such period as the public good may re-
quire.

SEC. 79c. In any case in which the proceedings for violation
of this law shall be instituted before a justice of the peace, the
party defendant, or the State's Attorney, or the party making
the complaint, shall have the right of appeal to the Circuit
Court within ten days after the trial and decision thereof; and
in all proceedings for violations of the provisions of this Act no
technical nor merely formal allegations shall be required, but