1748 ARTICLE 7.

and at the time an actual resident of Carroll County, of temperate habits
and good moral character, and who has in addition complied with the
provisions and requirements of this Act. No license under this Act shall
be issued for a longer period than one year, and all licenses shall expire
on the first day of May in each year; if issued for a shorter period, the
licensee shall pay for every month for which his license is to run until
the first day of May, one-twelfth of the annual charge for such license,
and such fractional license shall go into effect upon the first of the month
following the expiration of the notice cf his application.

1908, ch. 252, sec. 54F (p. 691).

97. If, after the notice provided for in this Act has been given there
be no remonstrance filed with said clerk against the issuing of the license
applied for within the time fixed by said notice, and said petition is in
accord with the requirements of this law, then said clerk shall issue said
license, to go into effect the first day of the succeeding month, upon the
petitioner or petitioners paying to said clerk, if the proposed place of sale
is located in the city of Westminster, or within one-half mile of the cor-
porate limits thereof, the sum of three hundred dollars; and elsewhere in
said county, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars; as well as the further
sum of fifty cents as a fee to the clerk. But if there be any remonstrance or
objection filed against the issuing of any license petitioned for before the
expiration of the time fixed by the notice above required, the clerk shall not
issue the same, but shall at once refer the petition and objection or remon-
strance to the Circuit Court for Carroll County, and any judge thereof shall
fix a date as early as practicable when said petition and remonstrance shall
be heard, and the clerk shall docket the case, notify the parties of the time
fixed, and at such hearing the burden of proof shall be upon the petitioner
to establish such allegations of his petition as are denied by the remon
strance. The said court shall, in its discretion, whenever in its opinion
the petitioner is or petitioners are unfit person or persons to be granted such
license, or the place for which the said license is applied is not a proper one
for the sale of intoxicating liquors with reference to the location of any of
the public schools or churches of the county, or any other sufficient cause,
or if the petitioner has not complied with all the prerequisites of this Act,
direct said clerk not to issue said license, and if said court shall determine
that said license shall be issued, then the clerk shall issue the same, upon
payment to him of the license fee hereinbefore provided for; and the judge
hearing said petition and remonstrance shall impose the payment of the
costs of such hearing in such manner as he may deem equitable and just.

1908, ch. 252, sec. 54G (p. 691).

98. The Clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll County shall keep and
preserve in his office a full record of all applications for licenses and all
recommendations for and remonstrance against the granting thereof, and
the time and hour of filing the same, whether it be granted or refused.