ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1093

Section 280AA, and to follow after Section 280 and to precede
Section 281. to permit the sale and delivery of certain articles
of merchandise in said County on the Sabbath Day, commonly
called Sunday, and to prohibit the sale therein of other mer-
chandise on said Day.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section to Article 10 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Dorchester County, " sub-title
to be known as "Sabbath Breaking, " to be known as Section
280AA, and to follow after Section 280 and to precede Section
281, be and it is hereby added.

280AA. No person or persons in Dorchester County, notwith-
standing such person or persons may have obtained from the
State of Maryland a trader's, or other, license to barter 'and sell,
shall sell, dispose of, barter, deal in or give away any article or
article's of merchandise on the Sabbath Day, commonly called
Sunday, and any person or persons violating the provisions of
this section shall be tried before any court or justice of the peace
of Dorchester County having criminal jurisdiction therein, and
upon conviction thereof shall foe fined a sum not less than
Twenty Dollars nor more than Fifty Dollars, in the discretion
of the court or justice of the peace trying such ease; all fines
imposed under this section shall be paid to the County Commis-
sioners of Dorchester County. This section is not to apply at
any time to hotels, oar to the selling of newspapers. Nor shall
this section apply to apothecaries, licensed restaurants, milk,
ice or ice cream dealers, nor to dealers specializing in the sale
of gasoline, oils and other automobile accessories; nor to licensed
garage keepers; nor to dealers commonly known as confectionery
dealers, except between the hours of 10. 30 A. M. and 12. 30
P. M., and between the hours of 7. 30 P. M. and 9. 00 P. M., said
hours being the usual hours when church services are in prog-
ress; nor is this section to apply to shoe shine parlors, prior to
twelve o'clock noon. This section is not to be construed to pre-
vent licensed restaurants from serving meals as on week days;
nor to prevent apothecaries from selling drugs and medicines
as on week days; nor to prevent dealers of any kind from
entering their places of business upon the request of any person,
for the purpose of obtaining merchandise in any case known to
or believed; to be by the dealer, a case of extreme necessity, pro-
vided, however, that all dealers exempted in this section, shall
post in a conspicuous place, in their place of business, a notice
of the provisions herein pertaining to the hours of closing;
otherwise, they will be excluded from said exemption.