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or any bathing beach, park or grounds of any description whatsoever for
the resort of persons as an excursion ground, camp meeting, encampment,
or place of amusement or diversion anywhere within the limits of Queen
Anne's County but without the limits of any incorporated town in said
County, without first applying for and securing a license or permit as
hereinafter provided.

1916, ch. 250, sec. 287.

39. Every such person, firm, corporation, association or organization

carrying on or conducting or desiring, or proposing to open, carry on or

conduct any such hotel, casino, excursion pavilion, or any bathing beach,
park or grounds of any description whatsoever for the resort of persons
as an excursion ground, camp meeting, encampment or place of amusement

or diversion within the limits of Queen Anne's County but without the
limits of any incorporated town in said County, shall make a written

application to the Board of County Commissioners of Queen Anne's
County, stating the location of the same, the character of the business,

entertainment or amusement to be conducted, if any, upon said premises,
and it shall thereupon become the duty of said Board of County Commis-
sioners of Queen Anne's County to inquire into and determine whether

or not the business, entertainment or amusement conducted or to be con-
ducted by any such applicant is detrimental to the public health, morals,
safety or welfare of the people of Queen Anne's County, and if the said
Board of County Commissioners shall determine that the said business,

entertainment or amusement carried on, or proposed to be carried on by

any such applicant is not detrimental to the public health, morals, safety

or welfare of the people of Queen Anne's County, they shall issue a certifi-
cate to such applicant, directed to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for

Queen Anne's County, to issue a license or permit to the said applicant
to open, carry on or conduct the business covered by the said application;

and it shall thereupon become and be the duty of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court to issue a license or permit to the said applicant upon payment to
the said Clerk of the sum of twenty-five cents.

1916, ch. 250, sec. 288.

40. Any person, firm or corporation, association or organization feel-
ing aggrieved by any decision of the Board of County Commissioners,
affecting his or its interests, under this Act, may have the same reviewed
by a proceeding in the nature of an appeal initiated in the Circuit Court
for Queen Anne's County, and the Court shall determine whether the
Board of County Commissioners has justly considered all the facts in
any application that may be made under the provisions of this Act. If the
Court shall determine that the Board of County Commissioners has acted

within its powers and has correctly construed the law and the facts, its
decision shall be confirmed, otherwise it shall be reversed or modified.
Upon the hearing of such an appeal the right of trial by jury shall be
preserved to any party to such appeal, according to the practice in civil

cases. The proceedings in any such appeal shall be informal and sum-