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the collector and treasurer of said city ten dollars for the expenses con-
nected therewith, which shall be credited on the license fee hereafter pre-
scribed, if the same shall be actually issued.

1892, ch. 598, sec. 184F. 1914 Code, sec. 54.

39. Said petition shall contain first, the name and residence of the
applicant, and how long he has resided there; second, the particular place
for which a license is desired, designating the same by street and number
if practicable, and if not, by such other apt description as definitely lo-
cates it; third, the place of birth of such applicant, and if a naturalized
citizen, when and where naturalized; fourth, the name of the owner of
the premises upon which the business is to be carried on; fifth, a state-
ment that the applicant is a citizen of the United States, and that it is
necessary for the accommodation of the public that the place should be
licensed; sixth, that the applicant is not, or if the applicant is from a
firm, that none of the applicants are, in any manner pecuniarily interested!
in the profits of the business conducted in any other place in said city
where any intoxicating liquors are sold or kept for sale; seventh, that no
person except the applicant is in any manner pecuniarily interested in the
business petitioned to be licensed, and that no other person shall be pecu-
niarily interested therein during the continuance of the license; eighth,
that the applicants have not nor has any of them had a license for the sale
of intoxicating liquors in this State revoked, nor has been convicted of
any crime within one year preceding the filing of said petition; ninth, the
petition must be certified by the affidavit of the petitioner, made before
a justice of the peace; if any false statement is made in any part of said
petition, the petitioner or petitioners shall be deemed guilty of perjury,
and upon indictment and conviction thereof his license shall be revoked,,
and he shall be subject to the penalties provided by law for that crime.

Howes v. State, 141 Md. 532.

1894, ch. 623, sec. 184G. 1914 Code, sec. 55.

40. There shall be annexed to said application a certificate signed by
at least ten reputable taxpayers bona fide residents, or doing business in
the vicinity in which the applicant proposes to conduct the business under
the license applied for, who have not signed an application for such license
for the same year for any other person, in which each of the persons
certifying shall state his or her residence or place of business; that he or
she is over twenty-five years of age; how long he or she has known the
applicant; that he or she believes the statement contained in the applica-
tion to be true; that from his or her knowledge of the applicant or appli-
cants, and that from his or her acquaintance with him or them, he or she
believes the applicant or applicants to be a proper person or persons to
have the privilege of selling spirituous or fermented liquors, and he or
she, accordingly, recommends the issuing of the license applied for; and
that he or she has not signed an application for such license for any other
person within six months from the date of such application.