BALTIMORE CITY. 1173

ditions as above stated with respect to distillers, brewers and wholesale
dealers or jobbers, other than wholesale druggists, and not otherwise, upon
paying the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars; but no such wholesale
druggist's license to sell wines, spirituous or fermented liquors shall be
given to any applicant who, or whose concern generally keep on hand, or,
in the case of applicants for the first time, expects to generally keep on
hand, at the principal season of sale, an amount of stock or wines, spirit-
uous or fermented liquors in excess of five 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 wholesale druggist's license shall, in addition to the statement
on oath now required by law of applicants for trader's licenses 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 gen-
erally kept on hand by him, or the concern in which he is engaged, at the
principal 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. Any person required by this section to take out a
license who shall sell or offer for sale any intoxicating liquors without
having first procured such license, and any person who shall violate any
of the provisions of this section, as to the manner or quantity in which
he shall sell or offer for sale such liquors, whether he shall be required
to take out a license or not, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than two hundred and fifty
dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, in the discretion of the Court;
and the license of such person may be at any time upon proof, revoked
by the Criminal Court of Baltimore City or by the Board of Liquor Li-
cense Commissioners; no license under this section shall be issiierl for a
longer period than one year; if issued for a shorter period, the licensee
shall pay for every month for which his license is to run one-twelfth of
the annual charge for such license, and all such licenses shall expire on
the first day of May succeeding their issue; the whole of the money re-
ceived by the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the licenses afore-
said 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 of Baltimore for three-fourths
thereof, to be applied to the general use of said City.

The license fee of $160, under section 688 as amended by Chapter 196 (Acts
1908) does not apply to a dealer who pays a brewery company to bottle for him
beer which he purchased from the brewery. The statute applies where the licensee
conducts a bottling business of his own and sells only fermented liquors which he
bottles himself.

1918, ch. 125.

688A. From and after the date of the passage of this Act wholesale
dealers or jobbers licenses, as defined in Section 688 of this Article, shall
be granted only to persons who for two years prior to such grant have