ORDINARY AND INN KEEPERS AND RETAILERS. 2233

ARTICLE 71.

ORDINARY AND INN KEEPERS AND RETAILERS.

1. Who may keep. 2. Accommodations. 3. Disorderly house; circuit or criminal court may withdraw license; or- phans' court, during recess of such courts. 4. Harboring or selling to apprentices. 5. Depository for valuables. 6. Exemption from liability for valuables not so deposited.

7. Hotel and inn-keepers shall have lien upon baggage, etc., for non-payment of board and lodging. 8. Boarding house keepers to have lien upon personal effects of boarders or lodgers for board and lodging; sale of such effects for satisfaction of lien. 9. Married woman to have same rights and powers under sec. 8 as feme sole.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1780, ch. 24, sec. 6.

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.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec, 2. 1780, ch. 24, sec. 5. 1858, ch. 414, sec. 5.

2. Every ordinary or inn keeper shall keep accommodations for travel-
ers, as provided in the article regulating licenses.

An. Code, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1888, sec. 3. 1780, ch. 24, sec. 7. 1784, ch. 7, sec. 9.

1831, ch. 323, sec. "11.

3. If an ordinary or inn 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 drunk in or about his house, the cir-
cuit court for the county, or the criminal court of Baltimore, if the offense
is committed in said city, may, on application or remonstrance, with-
draw 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.

Offenses under this section are not to be inquired of by presentment and indict-
ment, but by circuit cpurts of counties and criminal court of Baltimore city on
application or remonstrance, the licenses being liable to be withdrawn. The above
procedure is entirely different from that prescribed by act of 1780, ch. 24. Downs v.
State, 19 Md. 575.

As to the duty of hotel and boarding house keepers relative to infectious diseases, see
art. 43, sec. 96.