The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1882-10-13


vile, Norrisville and Upper X Roads.
In the Fifth Election District at Dublin
and Stcarns' Hotel
In the Sixth Election District at Havre de
Grace
For the purpose of clccting-
One person to represent the Second Con-
gressional District of Maryland in the Con-
gress OF the United States
One person to be Chief Judge for the Third
Judicial Circuit of Maryland
One person to be Associate Judge for the
Third Judicial Circuit of Maryland.
A vote will also be taken in accordance
with the provisions of the following Law,
passed by the General Assembly of Maryland,
at its January session, 1882
CHAPTER o.
AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of
Hartford county to determine by ballot
whether intoxicating liquors or alcoholic
bitters shall be sold therein
SECTION l. BE 1t enacted IN tie General As
Semdy Of maryland, That the question whether
or not any person or persons, house, corpo-
ration, company or association may be per-
mitted to sell any spirituous, fermcnted or
intoxicating liquors of whatever origin, or
alcoholic bitters, at any time in Hartford
county, in this State, shall be submitted to
the registered and qualified voters Of said
county, at the general election to be held on
the first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November eighteen hundred and eghty-two.
And the Sheriff of said county shall give no.
ticc of the time and purpose of said election
by advertisement inserted in all the newspa-
pers published in said county, and by hand
bills posted in each election district in said
county, at least ten days before the said cleo
ton, i'll which notice copy of this act shall
be inserted; and the expenses of said election,
including the advertisements and handblls
aforesaid shall be levied by the Commissioners
of said county and paid by the Treasurer
thereof
SEC 9. And be 1t enacted, That the ballots
for and against such sale shall have printed
or written upon them, for the sale of intoXi-
eating liquors, or against the sale of intoXi-
eating liquors; and the ballots so cast shall
be deposited in separate ballotboX provided
therefor, and the said ballots shall be carefully
counted by the judges of said election, and
said judges shall make return of said votes
to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Hartford
county and said clerk shall Immediately make
proclamation of the result of said election.
SEC. 3. And be 1t enacted, That if it shall
be found by the returns of said judges of cleo
tion and the proclamation of said clerk, that
the ajority of the votes cast in said county
are against the sale of intoxicating liquors,
that then it shall not be lawful for any person
or persons, any house, corporation, company
or association, to sell directly or indirectly, at
any place, or TO give away ut his, her, their,
or its place Of business, any sprituous, fer
mented, or intoxicating liquors of whatever
origin, or alcoholic bittcrs, after the first day
of May, in the year eighteen hundred and
eighty three; but if it shall appear by the re-
turns of said judges of election and proclama-
ton of the clerk of said court that majority
of the votes as prescribed in the third section
ofthis act haye been cast for the sale of in
toXicating liquors then the same shall be sold
as now permitted by law.
SEC. 4. and be 1t enacted, That if any per-
son or persons, house, company, association
or body corporate, shall sell directly or indi-
rcctly at any place, or give away at his, her,
their or its place of business, any spirituous
or fermented liquors or alcoholic bittcrs, or
intoxicating drinks of any kind, within the
limits of Hartford county, on or after the first
day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and
eighty-threc, he, she or they SHALL on convic-
ton thereof, forfeit and pay on the first con-
Viction fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor
more than three hundred dollars, and costs
of prosecution; or instead of such fine, i'm
prisonment in the county Jail for thirty days,
or both in the discretion OF the court; and on
the second and every subsequent conviction
not less than one hundred nor more than FIVE
hundred dollars, and in addition to such fine,
Imprisonment in the county Jail for not less
than thirty nor more than ninety days, in the
discretion of the court and on failure to pay
the fine, as herein described, he, she or they
shall be committed to the county Jail of Har-
ford county until such fine and the costs are
paid. One half of the fine imposed for any
violation of this act shall go to the informer
and the residue to the Board of County
School Commissioners of said county, for the
benefit of the public schools therein
SEC. 5. And be ii enacted That no person,
corporation, company or association shall
deposit or have in his, her or its possession
any spirituous or iermcntcd liquors, or alco-
holic bitters, or intoxicating liqours of any
kind, with intent to sell or give away the
same at his, her or its place of business, in
violation of this law, or with intent that the
same shall be sold or given away Mt his, her
or its place of business, by any person, cor
poration, company or association, or to aid
and assist any person, corporation, company
or association in such sale or gift and any
person, corporation, company or association
violating the provisions of this section, shall
be subject to the like fines and punishments
as are prescribed for violations Of the fourth
section of this act.
Sec. 6. And be ii enacted, That nothing
herein contained shall be construed to pre-
vent the compromising or sale of any such
liquors for medicinal purposes by pharma-
cist or druggist, who shall or may obtain n
license under the license laws of the State,
upon the written bona tide prescription of a
regular practising physician whose name
shall be signed thereto, and all such prescip-
tons shall be filed and kept by such pharma-
cist or druggist, and no prescription shall
serve for more than one purchase but no
physician shall make or sign any such pre-
scription unless the person for whom il is
made is actually sick, and such liquor is alb
solutcly required as n medicine. Any physi-
clan who shall after said first day of May,
eighteen hundred and eighty-three, make or
sign any prescription for such liquor, except
as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of n vio-
lation of this act, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor
more than two hundred dollars for the first
offence, and not less than two hundred dol
lars nor more than five hundred dollars for
each subsequent offence; and if the buyer
shall obtain prescription by misrepresenta-
ton, he shall likewise be deemed guilty of a
violation of this act, and upon conviction
thereof shall be subject to the same fines as
the physician who shall violate the same, the
ne-half of said fines to be paid to the infor-
mer, and the residue to the Board of Public
School Commissioners of Hartford county, for
the use of the said public schools; and said