CARROLL COUNTY. 1747

spirituous or fermented liquors on Sunday, or on election day, nor will
he or they knowingly sell or allow to be sold any intoxicating liquors to
minors or habitual drunkards at any time, nor knowingly allow a minor
to drink, loiter or loaf in such house or on the premises for which said
license is asked. (6) That he or they will not suffer or permit gambling
in said licensed building or on or about, its premises, keep or permit to
be kept a bawdy house in said house or on said premises, nor suffer or
permit the gathering together in said house or on said premises of women
for lewd or immoral purposes. (7) That said applicant or applicants has
'or have been a resident or residents of said county for more than one
year prior to the filing of said petition; or if said applicant or applicants
has or have not been a resident or residents of said county for at least
one year, then on account of the character of business he has or they have
engaged in for the preceding two years; the place or places where carried
on., and whether or not during said period of time he has or they have
been convicted of any crime or misdemeanor, and if he has or they have,
a certified copy of the proceedings in such case shall be filed with said
petition. (8) That six reputable freeholders above the age of twenty-five
years, who are bona fide residents of the neighborhood in which the busi-
ness petitioned to be licensed is to be conducted, and whose signatures
are subscribed to said petition certify that he or they are a proper person
or persons to conduct said business, and recommend that the license ap-
plied for be issued. (9) That no person or persons other than the peti-
tioner or petitioners has or shall have any interest in the business for
which the license is applied.

1908, ch. 252, sec. 54D (p. 690).

95. Every such petition shall be signed and verified by the affidavit
of the applicant or applicants, made before the clerk of the Circuit Court
for Carroll County, and to said petition shall be attached the certificate
of the freeholders who recommend the issuing of the license which shall
be subscribed by them; and the fact that a freeholder is a resident of
another county shall not ipso facto disqualify him from signing such
certificate; and no freeholder shall recommend the issuing of more than
one license or sign more than one petition, except in cases of the assign-
ment of licenses. In cases where two or more recommendations shall be
signed by the same person, the one first filed with the clerk shall be con-
sidered as first signed, and his signature to all subsequent petitions shall
be deemed void and of no effect. If any false statement of fact be made
in tiny part of said petition, the petitioner or petitioners shall, upon in-
dictment and conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of perjury, and the
license, if any, shall be revoked, and he or they shall be subject to the
penalties provided by the general laws of this State for the crime of per-

jury.

1908, ch. 252, sec. 54E (p. 690).

96. No license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors in said county
shall bo granted to any person who is not a citizen of the United States,