104 ARTICLE 1.

INTOXICATING LIQUORS.*

1894, ch. 140, sec. 175A. 1896. ch. 118. 1904, ch. 57, sec. 175A. 1908, ch. 628,

sec. 175A (p. 323).

299. Every person applying for a license to keep an oyster house, cook
shop, victualling house, tavern, lager beer saloon, or for any ordinary
license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors, and every person applying
for a license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors by retail, under Article
56, sections 55 to 66, inclusive, of the Code of Public General Laws of
1888,+ in Allegany County, shall file with the clerk of the Circuit Court
for Allegany County his, her or their petition for such license, and shall
at the same time pay to said clerk two dollars for expenses connected
therewith; and said clerk shall cause to be published three times in at
least one newspaper published in the town or city on which or nearest to
which the applicant's proposed place of business is to be located, a list
of the names of all such applicants, their respective residences and the
location of the place of business, and the owner of the premises for which
such application is made, and where, under the provisions of this Act the
publication might be made in one of several newspapers, the applicant
may designate the one in which the publication shall be made; the first
publication shall not be less than twenty days before the time fixed by
said clerk for the consideration of such application.

Local law not abrogated by 18th Amendment to Constitution of U. S. or by Vol-
stead Act. Molinari v. State, 141 Md. 565. Weisengoff v. State, 143 Md. 638.

1894. ch. 140, sec. 175B. 1902, ch. 415, sec. 175B. 1904, ch. 57, sec. 175B.
1908, ch. 628. sec. 175B (p. 323). 1910, ch. 296, sec. 175B (p. 475).

300. Said petition shall state the names and residences of the applicant
or applicants, and how long he, she or they may have resided in said
county. Second, the particular place for which the license is desired,
designating the same by street and number, if practicable, and if not by
such other apt description as definitely locates it. Third, the name of
the owner of the premises upon which the business to be licensed is to be
carried on. Fourth, a statement that the applicant or applicants is or are
a citizen or citizens of the United States. Fifth, that the applicant or
applicants have not, nor has either of them, had a license for the sale of
intoxicating liquors revoked under the provisions of this law or the law
hereby repealed within the past three years, nor has either of them been
convicted of any infamous crime, nor has any person whose license has
been revoked under the provisions of this Act, any interest in the business
to be carried on under the license applied for; nor will the applicant or
applicants permit such person or persons to acquire such interest during
the existence of the license applied for. Sixth, a statement as to which
of the two kinds of licenses granted under this Act is applied for. Seventh,
that he, she or they will not sell or give or allow to be sold or given away
in said house or remove from said house or on or from said premises any

*See secs. 178-179 of this Article.
+Secs. 73-84 of 1924 edition.