SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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terly Meeting in Calvert county, during the term or continuance of
such meeting, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence, the sum
of twenty dollars, to be recovered by indictment in the county court

Dec. Ses. 1821.

where the offence may be committed, one half to the informer and
the other half to the use of the said county; Provided, That nothing
herein contained shall be construed to prohibit or prevent any ordi-
nary keeper or retailer having lawful authority to do so, from sell-
ing any of the aforementioned articles at his or her respective

dwelling house or store.

Proviso.

2. And be it en acted, That whosoever shall, after the pas-
sage of this act, sell any bread, meat, cakes, or oats or other horse-
feed, within two miles of any camp or quarterly meeting in the
county aforesaid, during the term or continuance of such meeting,
without the consent in writing of the chief managers of said meet-

ing, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence, the sum of ten dol-

Not to sell

bread, &c.—

penalty.

lars, to be recovered and applied as aforesaid; Provided always,
That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit any
person or persons from buying or selling any of the articles named
in this section at the dwelling house, tavern, ware-house, store-house,
store or vessel of the buyer or seller, or on his or her own lands, or
at any market place regularly established before that time.

Proviso.

3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of any justice
of the peace for said county, upon information made before him,
supported by affidavit, that any person hath offended against any of
the provisions of this law, to issue his warrant directed to a consta-
ble, or to any other person by name willing to execute the same, to
apprehend and bring before him the said justice of the peace, or some
other justice of the peace for the said county, the person so charged
with having offended; and it, shall be the duty of the constable or
other person to whom the said warrant shall be directed, forthwith
to arrest the person so charged with having offended, and bring
him or her before the Justice of the peace by whom the said war-
rant shall have been issued, or some other justice of the peace for
the same county; and the justice of the peace before whom the per-
son so charged shall be brought, shall thereupon cause such party to
enter into recognizance, with sufficient security, to be approved by
the said justice, in the penalty of forty dollars, for his or her per-
sonal appearance at the next county court to be holden for the same
county, to answer the charge so made against him or her; and if
the person so charged shall neglect or refuse to enter into such re-
cognizance, it shall be the duty of said justice of the peace to com-
mit him or her to the public jail of said county, there to remain

until such recognizance shall be given, or until said offender shall

Justices to is-

sue warrants,

&c.

be discharged from prison by due course of law; Provided nevevthe-
less, That if the said offender, upon being brought before a justice of
the peace as aforesaid, shall pay to the said justice one half of the
penalty imposed by this law for the offence charged, (to be paid
over by the said justice to the levy court of the county wherein the
offence may have been committed, for the use of the county,) it
shall then be the duty of the said justice to release and discharge
such offender, and no other proceedings shall elsewhere be had

against said offender lor that offence.

Proviso.

4. And be it enacted, That in case any person shall, by
drunkenness or other disorderly behaviour, disturb the congrega-

Not to inter-
rupt the ser-
vice—penalty.