1174 ARTICLE 4.

been citizens of this State, or to corporations which for two years prior
to said grant have been doing business in this State either as resident
corporations or as duly registered foreign corporations, or to the assigns
or successors of such persons or corporations; and the number of outstand-
ing licenses granted to wholesale dealers or jobbers, as defined in this
Article, shall not at any time exceed the number of such licenses issued
and outstanding on the date at which this law becomes effective, and the
Board of Liquor License Commissioners shall refuse all applications for
such licenses if the full number of licenses permitted shall then have been
issued and outstanding at the time of application, but they shall keep a
list of such applications thus refused and shall file them in the order of
their presentation by hour and day; and upon any license or licenses
being revoked or cancelled or surrendered, so that the number of said
licenses as above limited shall not be then outstanding they shall at once
notify all parties whose applications are on file, by notice left at the
address given in the application, that they are prepared to consider the
issue of such number of licenses as may bring the total up to the limit
and they may in their discretion grant an additional license or licenses
to parties whose applications are on file in the order of their priority;
provided, however, that the total number of such licenses outstanding shall
at no time exceed the limit provided for in this Act; and upon the filing
of a new application by the parties who originally applied, within five
days after such notice has been issued, they may in their discretion grant
new licenses in the place of those cancelled, in al] cases giving priority
to any thus reapplying whose original application shall have been first on
file; and upon the expiration of said licenses to wholesale dealers and
jobbers at the end of the license year as in this Article provided, they shall
upon application renew the license of such wholesale dealers or jobbers
who before May 1st of each year shall apply for such renewal, before
granting any license to new applicants, and they shall grant no license
to any new applicants except where the applications for renewal fall below
the total number above authorized.*

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

689. No person shall receive a "hotel license," allowing the sale of
intoxicating liquors at a hotel or ordinary, unless he shall present to the
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas a notification, as provided for in
section 678 of this Article, wherein the decision of the Board of Liquor
License Commissioners to grant a "hotel license," to the applicant, is
plainly expressed nor until such applicant, in addition to paying the sum
•prescribed in this sub-division of this Article, shall have also paid for
and received a license to keep a hotel or ordinary, as now provided by law.
As to license for ordinary, sec note to section 674 ante, and Blackburn v. Living-
stone. Daily Record, January 15, 1000.

* Section 2 of chapter 125 of 1018 repeals all acts and parts of nets inconsistent
with this Act to the extent of such inconsistency.