ART. 70.] ORDINARY KEEPERS AND RETAILERS. 475

ARTICLE LXX.
Ordinary Keepers and Retailers.

SEC. 1, No person shall be admitted to keep an ordinary other
than the master, principal, or head of the house in which such
ordinary shall be kept.

2. Every ordinary keeper shall keep accommodations for
travellers, as provided in the article regulating licenses.

3. If any ordinary keeper keeps a disorderly house, or if any
retailer keeps a disorderly house, or suffers any liquor by him
sold or bartered, mixed or unmixed, to be drank in or about his
house, the Circuit Court of the county, or the Criminal Court of
Baltimore, if the offence is committed in said city, may, on ap-
plication or remonstrance, withdraw the license of such person
to retail spirituous or fermented liquors, and shall exercise a
sound discretion relative thereto; and during the recess of said
courts, the Orphans' Courts, at their several sessions, shall and
may exercise a similar power, authority and discretion.

4. If any ordinary keeper shall harbor, entertain, or sell any
liquor to any apprentice or slave without license in writing from
his master, he shall for every offence forfeit the sum of ten
dollars.

5. Any ordinary keeper in any city or town having a popula-
tion of more than five hundred inhabitants, who shall provide
an iron safe or other secure depository for the keeping of the
money, jewelry and plate belonging to his guests, and who shall
take charge for safe keeping of such money, jewelry and plate,
shall be liable for the full value of the same if lost or stolen
while thus in his charge, to be recovered before a justice of the
peace, if such value does not exceed the sum of one hundred
dollars, and if over that sum, by action of assumpsit in any court
having jurisdiction, unless the loss occurred through fire proved
to have happened without any negligence upon the part of him-
self or his agents.