The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-05-24
PUBLIC LOCAL Law
Relating to Hartford County.
ENACTED JANUARY SESSION, 1878
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
CHAPTER 1853.

AN ACT to prevent the sale of spirituous
and fermented liquors within the dis
lance of one-half mile from the main ex
hibition hall Of the Agricultural and
Mechanical Society of Hartford county
during the days of any exhibitions of
said society.
SECTION 1. BE 1t enacted by the General
assembly of Maryland, that any person who
shall sell or barter any spirituous or fer
mented liquor or liquors. lager beer or CT
der, within the distance of one-half mile
from the main exhibition hall of Agricul-
tural and Mechanical Society of Hartford
county on the days of any exhibitions of
misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction
thereof, be fined not less than fifty nor more
than two hundred dollars, or shall be i'm
prisoned in the county Jail not less than
ten nor more than thirty days, in the dis
cretion of the court
SEC. 2. Belt enacted, That if any person
shall while selling or bartering any arti-
Gle whatsoever, give aay spirituous or fer
mented liquor or liquors. or lager beer or
cider, such giving of any of said liquors
shall be construed a sale within the provi
sions Of preceding section.
SEC. g. BE 1t enacted, That if any person
shall commit an offence against the provi
sions of the preceding sections, such per-
son shall, in addition to the penalties
therein mentioned, forfeit all such spiritu-
Gus and fermented liquors, and all the
chests and other things containing the
same belonging to or in the possession of
the person so offending; and it shall be the
duty of any sheriff, deputy sheriff or con-
stable, or any of the special police to be APP
pointed as hereinafter provided if he or
they shall see any person violating the pre-
ceding sections to arrest The offender and
carry him before II justice of the peace, who
shall hold him to bail, and in default there
of shall commit him to Jail to await the ac
ton of the next grand jury. The sheriff,
deputy sheriff, constable or special police
aforesaid, when he arrests the offender,
shall seize the property hereby declared to
be forfeited, which shall be delivered to
the sheriff, if it.shall have been seized by
any of said officers other than the sheriff,
and said sheriff, unless security be given
for the restoration of said property, in case
of conviction, shall retain it in his custody,
and upon conviction of the offender, the
sheriff shall sell said property at public
auction to the highest bidder after ten
Gays notice, put up ut the court house
door in Bel Air the sheriff to be allowed
the same costs as in a TERI tacias.
SEC 4. Be 1t enacted, That the president
and directors of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical Society of Hartford county be
hereby authorized to appoint special po-
lice force to enforce the provisions of this
act during the days of any exhibitions Of
said society.
SEC. 5. BE 1t enacted, That none of the
provisions of this act shall apply to per.
sons selling wine or malt liquors within the
grounds of said society with the consent
thereof
SEC. 6. Be IL enacted That this act take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved March 9th, 1878.
We hereby certify, That the aforegoing
is u correct copy of an Act of Assembly
passed January Session, 1878.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
my17 Secretary of the Senate.