CECIL COUNTY. 1999

be occupied by said applicant, including all the buildings and grounds
to be used by said applicant in connection with said business, and said
applicant shall file with said petition a written certificate signed by ten
(10) respectable citizens of the town or election district wherein the ap-
plicant desires to sell shall reside, within two miles from the place to be
licensed, and each signer setting forth their belief that the applicant for
such license will keep an orderly house, and duly observe the provisions
of this subtitle, and each person signing said certificate shall state that
he has not during the current year signed a certificate for any other per-
son applying for a license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors within
said town or district; and if said applicant be a hotel keeper, he shall
satisfy said Board of Liquor License Commissioners by his own oath and
the oaths of two respectable and disinterested witnesses, of their belief
therein, that he has bona fide and without intending to evade the spirit
and meaning of this subtitle, duly provided and will maintain and keep
for use at least five or more chambers more than are needed for the pri-
vate or family purposes of said hotel keeper, to be used for the reception
of guests or permanent or transient boarders, and at least five beds with
sufficient covering therefor, with stabling for at least six horses, all of said
chambers and beds to be and remain on said premises in which spirituous
or fermented liquors are to be licensed to be sold; and each and every
applicant, whether a hotel keeper or not, shall tender to said Board of
Liquor License Commissioners a bond duly executed to the State of
Maryland, with at least two sureties, to be approved by said board, in
the penal sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful per-
formances of the provisions of this Act, and the payment of any and
all fines, penalties and damages which may be imposed or recovered under
this subtitle, which said bond shall be responsible to all such persons here-
inafter described as may be injured by the sale of spirituous or fermented
liquors sold in violation of the provisions of this sub-title. Upon the
receipt of said papers from, any applicant as hereinbefore provided, in-
cluding a good and sufficient bond, the said board shall forthwith adver-
tise at least once in two newspapers of the county (the costs of said adver-
tisement to be first paid to said board by the applicant) the substance of
said petition, specifying particularly the place where said applicant pro-
poses to sell; said notice shall specify a time and place when the board
will hear objections to the granting of such license. At the time and place
named the board shall hear any objections which may be made. If no
objections are made, or if objections made are, in the opinion of the board,
insufficient, and in their judgment the applicant has complied with the
provisions of the law and is entitled to a license, they shall give to said
applicant a certificate that he is entitled to a license, specifying the char-
acter thereof, upon the payment to the clerk of the Circuit Court for Cecil
County the license fees hereinafter provided. And said board shall file
the bond of the applicant, approved by said board, with said clerk of the
Circuit Court for Cecil County, and the judgment of said Board of Liquor
License Commissioners shall be final and conclusive upon any applicant,