JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That hereafter it shall not be lawful for the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Baltimore County to issue license to any
person or persons, or body corporate, to sell spirituous or fer-
mented liquors or lager beer in the village of New Market
(Maryland Line P. O.), in the first precinct of the Seventh
election district, in Baltimore County, Maryland, or at any
place within said Baltimore County, within a radius of one
mile of the Methodist Protestant Church, in said village of
New Market.

SEC. 2. And be it hereby further enacted, That this Act shall
ta'ke effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1900.

CHAPTER 220.
AN ACT to add a new section to Article 9 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title, "Charles County," under the new
sub-title, "Dogs;" to follow Section fifty-eight, and to be
designated as Section 58 A.

Unlawful to
sell liquor
within speci-
fied distance
from
M. P. Church.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and the same is hereby added to
Article g of the Code of Public Laws, title, ' 'Charles County,"
under the new sub-title, "Dogs," to follow Section fifty-
eight, to be designated as Section 58A, and to read as fol-
lows:

Charles Co.
Dogs.

58A. License fee of three dollars is hereby imposed on
every gyp or female dog owned or kept in Charles County, and
for making report of the same to the County Commissioners the
constables, sheriff and deputy sheriffs shall receive ten per
cent, of the amount received for licenses on dogs reported by
each of said persons respectively; that is to say, each person
who so reports shall receive the percentage on the number
reported by himself; .when the lists are so reported the County
Commissioners shall immediately enter the same in a book
to be kept for that purpose only, and send written notices to
the owners of said gyp that unless the license fee be paid on
or before a date to be given in said notice, the said gyp will
be levied on and taken in custody for the payment of the
license tax, and should the parties so notified fail to pay said
license tax on or before said date, the said Commissioners
shall direct said constables to levy on and take in execution
Such gyps, and at the time thereof said constables shall

License fee
imposed.