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otherwise dispose of any such liquors in said Charles County,
contrary to the provisions of this Act; and repealing all laws
and parts of laws heretofore enacted and now in force in this
State which permit or regulate the sale, giving away or other-
wise disposing of any such liquors in said Charles County, " be
and the same is hereby amended by adding a new and addi-
tional Section to immediately follow Section 2 of said Act,
and to be known as Section 2-A, and to read as follows:

SEC. 2-A. In the trial of any person, or any house, company,
association or body corporate, for a violation of any of the pre-
ceding Sections of this Act, it shall be lawful for the State
to prove that such person, 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 revenue laws thereof, upon or for Ms or its business
as brewers, or detail 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 Charles 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 Charles 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 evidence 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 cer-
tificate of said collector, or any of his deputies, or by the sworn
testimony 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 appli-
cation for such registry shall be prima facie evidence that the
party so paying and applying is engaged in the sale of intoxi-
cating liquors within the limits of Charles County.

Approved April 11th, 1916.

CHAPTER 253.

AN ACT to fix the compensation of the Sheriff of Baltimore
City; also authorizing the employment of a chief deputy