The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-06-01

| Tor, under the license law of this State, upon
the written bona tide prescription of regu-
lar practicng physician of said county, whose
name shall be signed thereto, and all such
prescriptions shall be filed by said druggist
or pharmacist and kept by him, and no per-
scription shall serve for more than one pur-
chase; but no physician shall make or sign
any such prescription unless the person for
whom it shall be made is actually sick, or
such liquor is absolutely required as med-
cine. Any physician who shall, after the
first day of December, in the year eighteen
hundred and lightweight, make or sign any
prescription for such liquor, except as afore-
said, shall be deemed guilty ola misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
not less than fifty dollars nor more than
three hundred dollars and costs of prosecu-
| ton, and be committed to the county Jail of
said county until such fine or fines and
costs of prosecution are paid and if buyer
shall obtain prescription by misrepresented
ton, he shall likewise be deemed guilty of a
violation of this act and upon conviction
thereof shall be subject to the same penal
ties which are set forth in section seven afore-
said nor shall anything in the preceding
sections hereof be construed to prohibit a
sale by pharmacist or druggist of such
| liquors to be used by or for a sick person in
case of extreme Illness when delay may be
dangerous to the patient, nor to prevent the
sale by pharmacist or Druggist of wine to
| be used for saeramental purposes solely.
SEC. D. That in the trial of any
| person or persons, or any house, company,
association or body corporate for a violation
| of any of the preceding sections hereof it
shall be lawful for the State to prove that
such person or persons, house, company, as
ISOLATION or body corporate, on trial, has or
have paid if such be the case) special tax
to the government of the United States, I'M
der the internal revenue laws thereof, upon
or for his her, their or its business, as a
brewer or brewers, or retail dealer or dealers
in liquors, or wholesale dealer or dealers in
liquors, or retail dealer or dealers in malt
liquors, or wholesale dealer or dealers in
malt liquors las the case may beg in Hartford
county, for period of time within which
such violation has occurred, and to prove
that he, she, it or they, has or have register.
ed his, her, their or its business for said per
iod as such dealer or dealers with the col
leCtor ofinternal revenue for the district of
which Hartford county shall form part, and
that he, she, it or they, made application to
said collector to be so registered; and it shall
be lawful for the State in such case to offer in
evidence said internal revenue law relating
to said special taxes, and the payment OF
said special taxes and the payment of said
special tax or taxes upon, and the regis
tering of his, her, their or its said business
may be proved by certificate of said col
lector or any of his deputies, or by the
sworn testimony of him, or any of them and
a copy of the application of any person or
persons, house, company, association or body
corporate, for registry, under said revenue
laws, made and attested by said collector or
any of his deputies, shall be prima ,tdcie
proof of such application and the payment
of said tax and the application for such
registry shall be prtnd tdcie evidence that
the party so paying and applying is engaged
in the sale of intoxicating liquors within the
limits of Hartford county
SEC. 10. That if any druggist or pharma-
cist shall violate any of the provisions of the
sections hereof, he, she, it or they shall be
liable to the same penalties which are set
forth in section seven aforesaid.
SEC. II. That all fines imposed under
this act shall be paid to the board of County
School Commissioners of said county, for
the use ofthe public schools therein
SEC. ~. That all prosecutions for viola
tons Of the provisions of this act, and which
are hereby declared to be criminal offences,
may be either upon presentment and indict-
ment or by trial before Justice of the Peace
who shall have jurisdiction, original and
concurrent with the circuit court for said
county, and said justice shall have power TO
issue all process, and do all acts which may
be necessary TO the exercise of his said juris-
diction, and may try and determine all
cases whereof he may have jurisdiction,
and may pronounce judgment and
sentence therein in the same manner and to
the same extent as the Circuit Court for said
county could do in such cases, as if such
cases were tried before said court without the
intervention Of a jury; provided, however
that if any person when brought before any
such Justice having jurisdiction of the case
shall, before trial for the alleged offence
pray jury trial, or if the States Attorney
for said county shall before the trial of such
alleged offence pray jury trial on the part
of the State, it shall be the duty of any
justice to commit such alleged offender for
trial, or to hold the said offender to bail to
appear for trial in the circuit court for the
said county at its then session, if it be then
in session, or at its next session, if it be not
then in session, and to return said commit
ment or recognizance, with the name and
residence of the witness or witnesses for the
prosecution endorsed thereon, forthwith to
the clerk of said court and provided the
justice before whom the case is tried shall in.
form tie person charged of his right to
jury trial.
SEC 49, That in any Indictment under
this act for violations of the provisions
of the preceding sections hereof if
it shall not be necessary TO specify the par
ticuar kind of liquor which any person or
persons, house, company, association or body
corporate, bartered, sold or gave away, or
solicited or received orders for the purchase
of or kept deposited or had with intent to
barter sell or give away, or that the same be
bartered, sold or given away in violation of
said provisions; but it shall be sufficient if
the Indictment sets forth that tho traverser
or traversers bartered, sold or gave away, or
solicited or received orders for the purchase
of, or kept deposited or had, with intent to
barter, sell or give away spirituous or fer
mented liquors or intoxicating drinks, or with
intent that the same be bal tered, sold or
given away, in violation of said provisions.
SEC. IA. And be 1t enacted That if it shall
appear by the returns ofsaid judges and GER
titcate of said clerk that majority of such
votes have been cast For License" then,
and in that event, the following sections
shall be added to article twelve OF the
Code Of Public Local Laws of Hartford
county, under the subtitle of "Sales ofSpirit-
uous or Fermented Liquors" to take effect
on the first day of December eighteen humid
red and eighty-eig
The High License Law.
SEC. 14S. No person in Hartford county
shall obtain license for the sale or barter of
spirituous or fermented liquors in any quantl-
ties whatever, except such rs shall be quail.
fed, MS hereinafter provided, and be II regu-
lar hotel keeper; and any person who may
keep house for the reception of guests, or
of permanent or transient bOarders contain
ing at least three chambers more than are
needed for his family purposes, and are used
for the reception of guests or boarders, con.
tanning therein for use at all times at least
four good beds, with sufficient covering
therefor, and having stable or stables suffi.
Gent for the accommodation Of six or more
horses, shall be deemed hotel keeper with.
in the meaning of this act
SEC. 140 Any person desiring to take
out a license under this act shall file with
the clerk of the circuit court for said county
petition in writing, signed by himself aud
and at least five freeholders, who have been
such for the period of one year prior TO the
time of so sipninr and resident within tho