1166 ARTICLE 4.
definitely locates it; (3) the kind of license desired, whether a saloon
license, hotel license, retail grocer's license, wholesale druggist's license,
wholesale trader's license, or license for a bottler of fermented liquors;
(4) the name of the owner of the premises upon which the business is
licensed to be carried on; (5) a statement that the applicant is a citizen
of the United States, and that it is necesasry for the accommodation of
the public that the place should be licensed; (6) that the applicants
have not, nor has any of them, had a license for the sale of intoxicating
liquors in this State revoked, or, if the applicants or any of them shall at
any time have had a license for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this
State revoked, a full statement shall be made of the circumstances attend-
ant upon such revocation, nor has been convicted of any crime within one
year preceding the filing of said petition; (7) that applicant will not
knowingly sell, or allow to be sold in the said house or on the said prem-
ises any such liquors on Sunday or on election days, or to minors at any
time, or allow a minor to drink in said house or on said premsies; that
applicant will not keep or permit to be kept a, bawdy house in the said
house or on the said premises, or the gathering together or the visitation
to said house or premises of women for lewd or immoral purposes; (8) this
petition must be verified by the affidavit of the petitioner, made before a
Notary Public; if any false statement is made in any part of said petition,
the license granted or issued to the petition may be at any time upon
proof revoked by the Board of Liquor License Commissioners and the
petitioner shall also be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon indictment and
conviction thereof, his license shall be revoked by the Criminal Court of
Baltimore City or by the Board of Liquor License Commissioners and he
shall be subject to the penalties provided by law for that crime.
Ordinary, License, for. The oath prescribed by sec. 86, Art. 56, Public General
Laws of Maryland, must be administered before a license can be validly issued for
an ordinary, notwithstanding the practice in vogue in Baltimore City. Blackburn
v. Livingstone, Daily Record, Jan. 15, 1900. Note provisions of section 689 of this
Article.
1890, ch. 343. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 653-1. 1918, ch. 125.
675. There shall be annexed to this petition a certificate signed by at
least ten respectable qualified voters, residing or doing business in the
ward in which the petitioner asks to do business, stating the residence or
place of business of each person, certifying and setting forth that they
have been acquainted with the petitioner or petitioners for (specifying the
length of such acquaintance), that they have good reason to believe that
all the statements contained in the petition are true, and they therefore
pray that the prayer of the said petitioner be granted and the license
issued as prayed for. This section shall not apply to wholesale traders
and bottlers of fermented liquors.
1890, ch. 343. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 653J. 1918, ch. 125.
676. The said Board shall publicly hear petitions from residents of the
ward or persons living or doing business in the vicinity of the place for
which any license is prayed, in addition to that of the petitioner, in favor
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