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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1900.

CHAPTER 278.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections
six hundred and seventy-eight and six hundred and ninety
of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "City
of Baltimore," sub-title "Liquors and Intoxicating Drinks,"
as re-enacted by Chapter one hundred and twenty-three of
the Acts of the General Assembly of eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight.

City of Balto.
Liquors and
intoxicating
drinks.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections six hundred and seventy-eight and six
hundred and ninety of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Liquors and
Intoxicating Drinks," as re-enacted by Chapter one hundred
and twenty-three of the Acts of the General Assembly of
eighten hundred and ninety-eight, be and the same are hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as
follows :

How licenses
shall be
granted.

678. If after the notice and hearing provided for in this sub-
division of this Article, the said board shall decide to grant
the license prayed for they shall notify the applicant of such
decision in writing, and the applicant shall thereupon pay to
the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas the sum of money
specified below to wit: For a hotel or restaurant or other
place in which distilled liquors or any admixture of distilled
liquors containing more than fifteen per centum of alcohol or
fermented liquors containing less than fifteen per cent, of
alcohol are sold by retail by the drink or in quantities or
packages, not exceeding five gallons, of any spirituous or fer-
mented liquor, except lager beer, and not exceeding one keg
of eight gallons or less of lager beer, to be drunk on the

Amount
of license.

premises or not, as desired by the purchaser, the sum of two
hundred and fifty dollars, and the Clerk of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas shall thereupon issue to the applicants the license
authorized to be issued by said board, provided that any bona
fide retail grocer who shall make application to said board
therefor may be licensed by said board, in their discretion,
upon complying with the conditions of this Act, to sell wines,
spirituous and fermented liquors, as aforesaid, in quantities