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premises; whenever the term intoxicating liquors is used in this and the
succeeding sections of this subtitle it shall be deemed to include whiskey,
brandy, rum, gin, wine, ale, beer and all other fermented and distilled
liquors, and every mixture of liquors which shall contain more than two
per cent, by weight of alcohol and every mixture of liquors which shall
contain less than two per cent, of alcohol if the same shall be intoxicating;
nothing in this or the succeeding sections of this subtitle shall be con-
strued to authorize the sale of any intoxicating liquors or any admixture
thereof in any part of said city where such sale now is or hereafter shall
be prohibited by special law.

Howea v. State, 141 Md. 532.

1890, ch. 568, sec. 194B. 1914 Code, sec. 50.

35. The Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis
shall keep a full record of all applications for license, of all recommenda-
tions for and remonstrances against the granting of licenses and of their
action thereon; and the vote of the members of said corporation by yeas
and nays shall be taken on the question of granting or refusing every
application for license, and said records of said corporation shall at all
suitable times be open to the inspection of the public; all necessary books
and stationery shall be furnished by said corporation and all expenses
necessarily incident to the execution and enforcement of this and the suc-
ceeding sections of this subtitle, shall he paid by the said corporation.

1900, ch. 662, sec. 184C. 1914 Code, sec. 51.

36. No license to sell intoxicating liquors shall be granted in Annap-
olis, except by the Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen, at a meeting of said
corporation, and only to citizens of the United States, of temperate habits
and good moral character, who shall have complied with the requirements
of the succeeding sections of this subtitle; and no license shall be granted
to anyone in Annapolis who shall not have resided therein for the period
of one year before the date of issuing the same.

Howes v. State, 141 Md. 532.

1890, ch. 568, sec. 184D. 1914 Code, sec. 52.

37. No license shall be issued for a longer period than one year; if
issued for a shorter period the licensee shall pay for every month for
which his license is to run, one-twelfth of the annual charge for such
license, and all such licenses shall expire on the first day of May succeed-
ing their issue, on which day all licenses issued by the said Mayor, Coun-
selor and Aldermen shall expire.

Howes v. State, 141 Md. 532.

1890, ch. 568, sec. 184E. 1914 Code, sec. 53.

38. Every person applying for a license to sell intoxicating liquors
in said city, shall file with the said Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen, his,
her or their petition for such license, and shall at the same time pay to