SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1267

[(c)] (b) It shall be unlawful for any licensee under this article
to allow any minor or minors under the age of twenty-one years to
loaf or loiter about the place of business for which such license is
issued; restaurants may, however, serve meals without alcoholic
beverages to minors.

[(d)] (c) Any person or persons, upon indictment and convic-
tion of violation of any of the provisions of this section, shall be
fined a sum not in excess of two hundred dollars ($200.00) or
shall be confined in the Worcester County jail or in the Maryland
House of Correction for a period not to exceed one year, or be both
fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court.

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(n) The county commissioners of the county are hereby authorized
to use any part of the fines collected for the violation of this article for
hiring detectives or secret service officers (who shall be deputized
proper officers) or for paying county constables to secure the en-
forcement of this article. And when there are no funds available
from fines collected for the violation of this article, such county
commissioners are hereby authorized to appropriate not more than
two hundred dollars annually in Queen Anne's and Wicomico coun-
ties [and five hundred dollars ($500.00) in Worcester County,]
from the general revenue fund for the purpose of enforcing the pro-
visions of this article.

(p) Every person convicted of violating any provision of this
section shall be fined not less than [one hundred dollars ($100.00)
in Worcester County, and not less than] two hundred dol-
lars ($200.00) in Queen Anne's County, nor more than five hundred
dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned in the county jail or House of Cor-
rection for not less than six months nor more than one year, or be
both so fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the justice of the
peace or the court. If any person shall be convicted of violating
any provision of this subtitle and shall subsequently violate any pro-
visions of this subtitle, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined
not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) nor more than two
thousand dollars ($2,000.00), and imprisoned in the county jail or
the House of Correction for not less than one year nor more than
two years. One-half of the fines shall be paid to the clerk of the
court for use as provided in Section 5 of Article 38, and the other
half to the county commissioners for general county purposes. A
certified transcript from the docket of the justice of the peace, or a
certified copy of the record, under seal, of the clerk of any court shall
be sufficient evidence of a previous conviction or convictions under
any section of this subtitle.

In Crisfield the penalty shall be a fine of not less than fifty dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars, or confinement in the House of
Correction for not less than six months nor more than two years,
or both, for each and every offense. In Wicomico County the penalty
shall be a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hun-
dred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for not less than
three months nor more than six months, or both, for each offense.

(q) This section shall only apply to and be effective in Queen
Anne's [and Worcester counties] County, except that subsections
(a), (b), (d), (e), (f), (g), and (h) hereof, shall also be effective in