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secretary of such club, society or association shall make application for
a license to sell spirituous and fermented liquors and lager beer in
the respective cities and counties where such clubs, societies or associa-
tions are located in the same manner as is required of retail liquor
dealers in such city or county; provided that no signers, such as are
required to attest the character of applicants for retail liquor license
shall be required on an application for a club license; but such clubs,
societies or associations shall file with the application for license a
sworn list of the bona fide members of such club, society or association.
Whenever the authorities who in the respective counties and cities are
vested with the power to grant or refuse licenses shall be satisfied that
the club making application for license is in fact such legitimate and
bona fide organization as it purports to be and that such organization
would not be a nuisance to the neighborhood where it proposes to locate,
then the said authorities shall grant to the applicant a license, for
which the same fee shall be paid as is required by law to be paid in
that city or county where the club is located. This section not to apply
to Baltimore and Washington counties.

The state is the source from which all licenses for the sale of liquor are
derived. The Intent and effect of this section. This section construed in
connection with the act of 1906, ch. 278, and section 682 of the Baltimore city
Charter (prohibiting the sale of liquor on Sunday in Baltimore city). State
v. Maryland Club, 105 Md. 595.

Formerly the liquor license laws did not apply to social clubs. Seim v.
State, 55 Md. 571. See also, State v. Maryland Club, 105 Md. 597.

1904, art. 56, sec. 88. 1898, ch. 246, sec. 81s.

88. If any such club, society or association, or officer or agent
thereof shall sell, give, barter or in any way furnish or dispense intoxi-
cating liquor or any admixture thereof to any person, whether a mem-
ber thereof or not, without a license as herein provided, such officer
or agent shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or be imprisoned in
jail or the house of correction for not more than one year, or be both
fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court. This section not
to apply to Baltimore and Washington counties.

Ibid. sec. 89. 1900, ch. 446, sec. 81 c.

89. The whole of the money received by the clerk of the court of
common pleas in the city of Baltimore for licenses granted to clubs,
societies and associations selling intoxicating liquor shall be paid over
quarterly by the said clerk of the court of common pleas to the State
as now provided by law, and when so paid over, the comptroller shall
draw his warrant upon the treasurer in favor of the mayor and city
council of Baltimore for three-quarters thereof, to be applied to the
general use of said city.