EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 496.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 22 of the Code

of Public Local Laws, title "Washington County," sub-title

"Hancock," to follow Section 241 and to be designated as

Section 241A, giving power to the Burgess and Commis-

sioners of Hancock to regulate, license and tax restaurants,

breweries and all saloons and other places where malt,

spirituous, vinous and fermented liquors are sold.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That an additional section be added to Article 22 of the

Hancock,

Code of Public Local Laws, title "Washington County," sub-

Washington
County, Md.

title "Hancock," to follow Section 241 and to be designated

as Section 241 A, and to read as follows :

241A. The Burgess and Commissioners of Hancock be and

are hereby authorized and empowered to pass an ordinance

Ordinance to

or ordinances to regulate, license and tax restaurants, brew-

license sa-
loons, etc.

eries and all saloons and other places where malt, spirituous,

vinous and fermented liquors are sold within the corporate

limits of the town of Hancock ; provided, that no sum smaller

than twenty-five dollars and no sum greater than one hundred

dollars per annum be charged for any one license ; and pro-

vided, further, that any ordinance passed in pursuance hereof,

the penalty for violation of the same shall not be greater than

a fine of one hundred dollars, or in default of payment thereof

confinement in the jail of Washington County for a period not

exceeding ninety days.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 497.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212 and

213 of Article 10 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title

"Dorchester County," sub-title "Liquors and Intoxicating

Drinks," and the amendments thereto made by the General

Assembly of Maryland, as follows, to wit: by Chapter 595

of the Acts of 1890, Chapter 60 of the Acts of 1894, Chapter

234 of the Acts of 1896, and Chapters 433 and 438 of the

Acts of 1898 in so far as said sections and said amendments