1562 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 691

evidence of the violation of the provisions of Section 98-I or
98-J of this Article, as charged or presented.

98-M. If the person accused of violating any of the above
sections of this Act shall be found guilty, any intoxicating
liquors seized of him, her, them or it, shall after the trial
and time for appeal or writ of error, if no appeal or writ
of error is taken, be destroyed by the Sheriff of Howard
County; and all materials and. instrumentalities for the manu-
facture of intoxicating liquors, shall be forfeited to the
County and disposed of in accordance with the order of the
Court having jurisdiction to try violations of this Act. The
Court is hereby authorized in its discretion to order the de-
struction of any of the articles above described or to direct the
sale of such by the Sheriff of Howard County, and the pay-
ment of the proceeds of said sale to the County Commissioners
for Howard County for the use of the County.

98-N. In any indictment under this Act for violation of
any of the provisions of the preceding sections hereof, it shall
not be necessary to specify the particular kind of liquor or
liquors which any person or persons, house, company, asso-
ciation or body corporate, bartered or sold or solicited or
received orders for the purchase of, or gave to any minor or
minors, or deposited, kept or had in his, her, their or its
possession with intent to barter, or sell, or give to a minor
or minors or that the same be bartered or sold, or given to
a minor or minors, or manufactured in violation of said
provisions, but it shall be sufficient if the indictment sets
forth that the traverser or the traversers bartered or sold
or solicited or received orders for the purchase of, or gave to
a minor or minors, or deposited, kept or had in his, her, their
or its possession with intent to barter or sell, or give to a
minor or minors, or manufacture, spirituous or fermented
liquors or intoxicating drinks, or with the intent that the
same be bartered or sold, or given to a minor or minors, or
manufactured in violation of said provisions.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this
Act shall apply to cases pending, nor to any violation or
violations of law which have heretofore occurred, but all such
cases and violations shall be prosecuted and punished under
the law heretofore in force.