680 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 194, 194A and 194B of Chapter 665 of the
Acts of 1894, entiled "An Act to Repeal Section 194 of Arti-
cle 6 of the. Code of Public Local Laws," title "Caroline Coun-
ty/' sub-title "Liquor and Intoxicating Drinks," be and the
same are hereby repealed and the following new section, to be
designated as Section 194, be enacted in lieu thereof and so as
to read as follows:

SEC. 194. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons,
firm or corporation, directly or indirectly, to sell or otherwise
dispose of, by way of barter, or give away in any place of busi-
ness within Caroline county, any spirituous, vinous, malt or
fermented or other intoxicating liquors, medicated bitters, or
any compound of which alcohol is a chief or principal ingredi-
ent; or the sale of cider of any kind; and it shall also be un-
lawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation within
the said Caroline county, to take orders for any such liquors,
medicated bitters, or alcoholic compound, at any time, under
any pretenses, in any manner, or for any purpose whatever;
and if any person or persons, firm or corporation within said
Caroline county shall directly or indirectly sell or otherwise
dispose of, by way of barter, any such liquors, medicated bit-
ters or alcoholic compounds, or cider, or shall therein take any
order or orders thereof, then such person or persons, the mem-
bers of such firm, and directors, trustees or managers of such
corporation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on convic-
tion thereof in the Circuit Court of Caroline County, or before
any Justice of the Peace thereof, shall for the first offense be
confined in the Maryland House of Correction for not less than
one year, and for every subsequent offense not less than three
years; in any indictment, warrant or other charge, the mem-
bers of any firm shall be designated as in civil suits, and, in
the case of corporations the directors, trustees or managers
thereof may be simply designated as directors, trustees or
managers of such corporation, and in no case against the
members of any firm or against the directors, trustees or man-
agers of any corporation shall abate, be quashed or set aside
upon demurrer, because less than the whole number of the
members of any firm or of the directors, trustees or managers
of such corporation have been charged or arrested, but such as
are charged and have been arrested may be tried, and those
who have not been charged, or those who, being charged, have
not been arrested, may, upon being charged, arrested, be tried;
in trials of the Circuit Court, where the cases have been re-
moved to said Court for a jury for trial, or in trials upon
appeals from Justices of the Peace, instead of proceeding to
trial upon the warrant issued by the Justice, the State's Attor-