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for a six months' license. For a hotel license the same amounts shall be
paid in the same manner.

For a club license, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars shall be
paid for a twelve months' license for the term of twelve months begin-
ning on the first day of May in each and every year, accounting from
May 1, 1914, and a sum equal to one-half of said sum of $750.00 shall
be paid for a six months' license. For a retail grocers' license, the sum
of five hundred dollars shall be paid for a twelve months' license for each
term of twelve months, beginning on the first day of May, in each and
every year, accounting from May 1st, 1908, and a sum equal to one-half
of said sum of five hundred dollars shall be paid for a six months' retail
grocer's license; provided, however, that none but a bona fide retail grocer
who shall make application to said Board therefor, shall receive a retail
grocer's license, and no such retail grocer's license shall be given to any
one except on complying with the conditions of this Act, and such
license shall only entitle such licensees to soil wines, spirituous or fer-
mented liquors, as aforesaid, in quantities or packages of not less than
one pint; but in no case to be drunk on the premises; nor shall such retail
grocer's license to sell wines, spirituous or fermented liquors, as aforesaid,
be given to any applicant who, or whose concern generally keeps on hand,
or in case of applications for the first time, expects to generally keep on
hand, at the principal season of sale, an amount of stock of wines, spiritu-
ous or fermented liquors in excess of thirty per centum of the total amount
of stock of goods, wares and merchandise generally kept on hand by him,
or the said concern, at the principal season of sale; and every applicant
for such retail grocer's license shall, in addition to the statement on oath,
now required by law of applicants for trader's license, as to their total
stock of goods, wares and merchandise, state to the Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas, on oath to be administered by the Clerk, the amount of
said applicant's stock of wines, spirituous or fermented liquors generally
kept on hand by him, or the concern in which he is engaged at the prin-
cipal season of sale or if said applicant shall not have previously engaged
in such trade or business, the amount of such stock he expects to keep as
aforesaid. In no case shall a license to sell intoxicating liquors by the
drink be granted to any person who shall obtain a license to sell goods,
wares or merchandise other than intoxicating upon the said premises,
when such intoxicating liquors are licensed to be sold, but licensed saloon-
keepers may also sell tobacco and non-alcoholic beverages; provided, fur-
ther, that no retail licenses shall be issued to any distiller or brewer.
Standard Brewing Co. v. Weil, 129 Md. 488. Ulman v. State, 137 Md. 642.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 653M. 1890, ch. 343. 1908, ch. 196.
679. The whole of the money received by the Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas for the licenses aforesaid shall be paid over quarterly by
said clerk of the Court of Common Pleas to the State, as now provided
by law, and when so paid over, the Comptroller of the Treasury shall draw
his warrant upon the Treasurer in favor of the Mayor and City Council