1168 ARTICLE 4.

intoxicating liquors upon its premises or by it on any days or occasions
in said laws mentioned, and will, at all times, to the best of its ability,
prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors therein from becoming the source
of any disturbance of the peace or good order of the city. No signers
shall be required to attest the character of applicants for a club license,
but with the application shall be filed a sworn list of the bona fide mem-
bers of such club, society or association, and before issuing the license
applied for the said Board shall be satisfied that the applicant is, in fact,
such a legitimate bona fide organization as it claims to be, and that it
would not be a nuisance to the neighborhood in which it is located, and
for such purpose the Board may call for such other and additional evi-
dence as to it may seem proper, and may hear petitions in opposition
thereto, as provided in Sections 676 and 687 of this Article.

1890, ch. 343. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4. sec. 653K.

677. No license shall be issued to any person or persons until he, she
or they shall have paid the license fees provided for in this sub-division
of this Article.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 653L. 1894, ch. 86. 1906, ch. 278. 1908, ch. 196.

1914, ch. 853.

678. If after the notice and hearing provided for in this sub-division
of this Article, the said Board shall decide to grant the license prayed
for, they shall notify the applicant of such decision in writing, and if the
applicant shall, within thirty days from the date when such license
granted is to become effective, produce to the Clerk of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, the said notification, and pay said Clerk the sum of money
herein specified for the particular license prayed for, the said Clerk shall
thereupon issue to him the license granted to him by the said Board; but
every grant of a twelve months' license upon which no license has been
actually taken out and paid for prior to the first day of June, in the
year of its issue, and every grant of a six months' license upon which no
license has been actually taken out and paid for prior to the first day of
December, in the year of its issue, shall be after the said first day of June
or December, respectively, null and void, and no license shall be issued
thereupon.

For a saloon or restaurant in which distilled liquors or any mixture
of distilled liquors containing more than fifteen per centum of alcohol
or fermented liquors containing less than fifteen per centum of alcohol,
may be sold by retail, by the drink, or in quantities or packages not
exceeding five gallons of any spirituous or fermented liquors, except lager
beer, and not exceeding one keg of eight gallons or less of lager beer to
be drunk on the premises or not, as desired by the purchaser, the sum
of one thousand dollars shall be paid for a twelve months' license for the
twelve months beginning on May 1st, 1914, and for each succeeding term
of twelve months beginning on the first dav of May in each and every
year thereafter; and a sum equal to one-half of said sum, shall be paid