THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 119.

AN ACT to prohibit the sale or gift of any in-
toxicating liquors in Tangier district, being dis-
trict No. Fifteen, of Somerset county, except
in certain cases therein provided.

Passed March
4, 1858.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for any
person or persons to sell, or keep for sale, any spiri-
tuous or intoxicating liquors within the bounds of
Tangier district, being district number fifteen, of
Somerset county; and the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Somerset county is hereby strictly for-
bidden to grant any license for any such sale or
disposal; nor shall it be lawful to give away
such liquor, or keep it with the intent to be given
away (but as a medicine by physicians or for sac-
ramental purposes) in any tavern, store, grocery
shop, boarding, or victualling house, or place of
public amusement, or any place connected there-
with; nor shall it be lawful to deposit any such
liquor except in a dwelling house or in a church
For sacramental purposes, or in some mechanical,
chemical or medicinal establishment requiring its
use, or whilst in storage or transportation on its
way to its place of destination.

Sale of spiri-
tuous liquors
prohibited.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the boundaries
of the said district comprehended within this act
shall be considered to extend to the middle of the
channel of the Tangier sound and Monokin river,
respectively, wherever they, or either of them,
shall bind upon said district.

Boundaries.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in case any
license shall have been granted, or may hereafter
be granted to any person or persons to sell intoxi-
cating liquors within the bounds of the said dis-
trict, the said license shall be null and void after
this act shall take effect, and shall not be con-
sidered in any manner further to authorise the
sale of the same.

License null
and void.

SEC. 4, And be it enacted, That power and au-
thority is hereby given to the Judge of the Circuit
Court for Somerset county to hear and determine
all cases arising under the provisions of this act,
upon presentment or indictment found, unless

Power given
to Judge of Cir-
cuit court.