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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than six

months, or both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of

the court, and his, her or their license shall be revoked, and

in default of payment of the fine and costs so imposed the

bond herein provided for shall be put to suit for the recovery

thereof, and it shall not be necessary in an indictment for

Former convic
tions for vio-

said second offense to allege a former conviction under the

lation of law.

provisions of this Act, but such former conviction may be

proven in the trial for said second offense, or brought to the

notice of the court before sentence without such allegation.

Any person who shall knowingly procure for or give to an

habitual drunkard or to any person of intemperate habits

any spirituous or fermented liquors or lager beer in viola-

tion of the provisions of this Act shall be subject to a fine

of not more than one hundred dollars or to imprisonment

in the county jail for not more than six months, or both fine

and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Any person

not a licensee who shall procure for, sell, furnish or give to

any person who is a minor or under twenty-one years of

age any spirituous or fermented liquor or lager beer shall,

upon indictment and conviction, be subject to a fine of not

more than one hundred dollars or to imprisonment in the

county jail for not more than six months, or both fine and

imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. The license

of any person who permits minors to frequent, loiter or loaf

about his place of business, or disreputable or disorderly per-

sons to make it a customary place of visitation or resort, may

at any time on indictment and conviction be revoked by the

Circuit Court for Allegany County, and the same person

shall not again be granted license under this Act within two

years of the time of such revocation. Remonstrances may

Filing of re-

be filed with the said clerk against any kind of a license at

monstrances.

any time after such license has been granted under this act

or any other for the sale of liquor, and as soon thereafter as

practicable the court shall set the same down for hearing,

notice to which shall be given to the licensee by service of a.

copy of the order for hearing, and when upon such hearing

the court shall, in its discretion, determine that the public wel-

fare and the peace and good order of the community require

it, revoke such license, and the person whose license is so

revoked shall not again be granted license under this Act

within two years from the date of such revocation if the court

so orders; provided, however, that when a license is so re-

voked the licensee shall be entitled to a return of the un-

earned portion of the license fees paid, and a certified copy