1504 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680

or given away, in violation thereof, within the limits of said
county, or to aid or assist any person, house, company, asso-
ciation or body corporate in such barter, sale or gift; provided,
that this Section shall not apply to the territory within the
corporate limits of the city of Havre de Grace.

421. If any person, house, company, association or body
corporate shall violate any of the provisions of the two pre-
ceding sections, he or they shall, on each and every conviction
thereof, forfeit and pay a fine of not less than one hundred
dollars nor more than six hundred dollars, and costs of prosecu-
tion, and failing to pay such fine and costs forthwith, shall be
sentenced to be confined in the Maryland House of Correction,
for a term not less than six months nor more than twelve
months, or until such fine and costs are paid.

422. In the trial of any person, or any house, company,
association or body corporate, for a violation of any of the
preceding sections of this sub-title of this article, it
shall be lawful for the State to prove that such per-
son, house, company, association or body corporate, on
trial, has or have paid (if such be the case) a special tax to
the government of the United States, under the internal rev-
enue laws thereof, upon or for his or its business as brewers
or retail dealers in liquors, or wholesale dealers in liquors, or
retail dealers in malt liquors, or wholesale dealers in malt
liquors (as the case may be) in Harford County, for a period
of time within which such violation has occurred, and to prove
that he or it has registered his or its business for said period
as such dealer with the collector of internal revenue for the
district of which Harford County shall form a part, and that
he or it made application to said collector to be so registered;
and it shall be lawful for the State in such case to offer in evi-
dence said internal revenue law relating to said special taxes,
and the payment of said special tax upon., and the registering
of his or its said business may be proved by a certificate of
said collector, or any of his deputies, or by the sworn testi-
mony of him, or any of them, and a copy of the application
of any person, house, company, association or body corporate,
for registry, under said revenue laws, made and attested by
said collector, or any of his deputies, shall be prima facie
proof of such application, and the payment of said tax and
the application for such registry shall be prima facie evidence
that the party so paying and applying is engaged in the sale of
intoxicating liquors within the limits of Harford County.