3098 ARTICLE 14.

Howard County, in which he shall state; first, his or her name and that
he or she is a resident of the second election district of Howard County;
second, that he or she is a citizen of the United States, and has been for
twelve months next preceding the filing of such application, a bona fide
resident of the State of Maryland; third, that the application is not, or if
the application is by a firm, that none of the applicants are in any manner
pecuniarily interested in the profits of any business conducted at any other
place in that part of Ellicott City affected by this sub-title where any
spirituous or fermented liquors are sold or kept for sale; and fourth, the
particular place where the business is to be conducted under the license
sought, specifying the same by definite designation and description; which
said application shall be verified by the affidavit of the applicant, made
before the clerk of the court to whom the application is made, and if any
false statement is made in any part of said application, the applicant or
applicants shall be guilty of perjury and upon indictment and conviction
shall be punished accordingly and any license issued upon such application
shall be suppressed.

1892, ch. 281, sec. 980. 1902, ch. 249, sec. 98C.

213. There shall be annexed to said application a certificate signed by
at least five respectable freeholders, bona fide residents and registered
voters of Ellicott City affected by the provisions of this sub-title, and
which the persons certifying shall state that they recommended the ap-
plicant as a suitable person to whom such license shall be issued, and no
one person shall endorse more than one such application.

State v. Mellor, 140 Md. 364.

1892, ch. 281, sec. 98D. 1902, ch. 249, sec. 98D.

214. Upon said application and certificate being filed with the clerk
of the Circuit Court for Howard county, he shall issue to said applicant
a license for the period of twelve months from the first of May in each
year upon receiving from such applicant the sum of five hundred dollars
therefor for one year, and ratably the same amount for any fraction of
a year; the said annual license to begin and end on the first day of May
in each year; but no license shall be granted where groceries, merchan-
dise or any other goods are to be sold upon the same premises.

1902, ch. 281, sec. 98E. 1902, ch. 249, sec. 98B.

215. The clerk of the Circuit Court shall, out of the moneys so re-
ceived, pay over quarterly to the Treasurer of the State, the same sum
as is now charged by the State for such license, to wit, the sum of fifty
dollars for each license, and the balance shall be paid to the Mayor and
City Council of Ellicott City; the said sums so received to be used for
the fiscal purposes of the town of Ellicott City with regard to the location
within the two counties in respect to the amount so respectively received
from the licenses of each county or city within.