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Session Laws, 1972
Volume 708, Page 547   View pdf image
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Marvin Mandel, Governor                         547

sheriff [or any constable] of the county, or to any [deputized]
proper officer, commanding him to search the premises or house
described and designated in such complaint and warrant and the
appurtenances thereof, and if any such shall there be found to
take into his possession and safely keep all intoxicating liquor and
the vessels in which it is contained if the same shall be found in
quantities and under such conditions as to suggest that it is kept
for sale, and all the means used for the sale of the same, all the
paraphernalia or part of the paraphernalia of a barroom or drinking
saloon, and ANY United States internal revenue tax receipt for the
sale of intoxicating liquor effective for the period of time covering the
alleged offense, and forthwith report in writing the facts and make
immediate return on said warrant.

(2) The warrant for search shall be directed to any proper
officer, and shall show by a copy of the affidavit inserted therein,
or annexed and referred to, or recite all of the material facts alleged
in the affidavit, and particularly describe the thing to be searched
for and the place, house or thing to be searched. A complaint or
affidavit, a warrant for search and a return and report substantially
in the following forms shall be sufficient:

State of Maryland, ................................ County, to wit:

To: ........................................, [Constable, Deputy, Sheriff,] of

................................County:

GREETINGS: Whereas, there has been filed with the undersigned
an affidavit, of which the following is a copy, to wit: "Whereas

on this ................................ day of ........................, 19........, before the

Subscriber, ................................ in and for said County, personally

appeared ................................, and made complaint and oath that

he has just and reasonable cause to suspect and believe and does
suspect and believe that intoxicating liquor is sold, or except for
the purpose of being sold or otherwise disposed of in violation of

the law in the .................................of........................at, in....................

of said County, and that in and upon said premises and at said
place and house will be found upon search thereof, the following:

Intoxicating liquors, and the vessels and bottles in which the
same are contained, and barroom, and drinking saloon parapher-
nalia, and the United States Internal Revenue tax receipt for sale
of intoxicating liquor at this time effective (and any other facts
material):

THESE ARE THEREFORE, in the name of the State of Mary-
land, to command you, together with the necessary and proper as-
sistance, to enter into the said ................................ of the said

................................ at, in ................................in the county aforesaid,

and there diligently search for the said intoxicating liquor and means
used for the sale of same, or any part thereof as described in the
aforegoing affidavit of complaint, and that you bring the same,
or any part thereof, found in such search, and the person or persons
in whose custody they are found forthwith before me to be disposed
of and dealt with according to law; and have you there this warrant.

Given under my hand this ........................ day of ........................

19.........

[Trial Magistrate (or Justice of the Peace)]
Judge of the District Court

 

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