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profits of the business conducted in any other place in said County where
any intoxicating liquors are sold or kept for sale; sixth, that no person
except the applicant, is in any manner directly or indirectly interested in
the business petitioned to be licensed, and that no other person shall be
pecuniarily interested therein -during the continuance of the license;
seventh, that the applicants have not nor have any of them had a license
for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this State revoked nor has been con-
victed of any crime within one year preceding the filing of said petition;
and, provided, the said applicant shall file with the petition, a written
certificate signed by ten male freeholders, resident citizens within the cor-
porate limits of the town wherein the applicant desires to sell, setting
forth their belief that the applicant for such license will keep an orderly
house and duly observe all the provisions of this Act; and each signing
said certificate shall make affidavit before said Clerk or before a Justice
of the Peace of said County, that he is over thirty years of age; that he is
the owner of real estate in the town wherein he resides, of the assessed
value of at least three thousand dollars above encumbrances and that he
has not during the current year signed a certificate for any other person
applying for license to sell spirituous, fermented or malt liquors within
said County, and that he, himself, has not applied for a license to sell
spirituous, fermented or malt liquors in said County, and said applicant
shall satisfy the said Clerk by his own oath, and by the oath of two re-
spectable and disinterested witnesses of their belief therein that he has
bona fide and without intending to evade the spirit and meaning of this
Act, duly provided and will maintain and keep for use at least five cham-
bers more than are needed for private or the family purposes of said hotel
keeper to be used for the reception of guests or permanent or transient
boarders, and at least six beds with sufficient covering, and all of said
chambers and beds; to be and to remain on the said premises, on which
spirituous or fermented liquors are by this Act licensed to be sold; and
each and every applicant shall file in the office of the said Clerk, a bond
duly executed to the State of Maryland with at least three sureties, to be
approved by said Clerk in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, condi-
tioned for the faithful observance of the provisions of this Act, and the
payment of any and all fines, penalties and damages which may be im-
posed or recovered under this Act; provided, that each surety on said
bond shall make affidavit before said Clerk or before a Justice of the
Peace of said County, that said surety is the owner in fee simple of unen-
cumbered real estate in Garrett County of the assessed value of at least
two thousand dollars, and that said surety has not within the current year
executed a bond for any other applicant to sell spirituous or fermented
liquors in Garrett County; said bond shall be responsible to all such per-
sons hereinafter described as may be injured by the sale of spirituous or
fermented liquors sold in violation of the provisions of this Act. No
bond of any applicant shall be approved by said Clerk, if it shall appear
to him that either of the sureties thereon or that any applicant has become
surety upon the bond of any other applicant. Said application shall be