4890 ARTICLE 22.

preceding the first day of May, 1908. Eleventh, The names or not less
than two reputable freeholders of Washington county who will be his or
their sureties on the bond that is required by this Act, and the statement
that each of said sureties is a bona fide owner of real estate in said county,
worth over and above all incumbrance, the sum of three thousand dollars,
and residing within two miles of the proposed place of sale. Twelfth, that
no person not a resident of said Washington county for the period of one
year prior to the date of application of said petition, or a non-resident of
the State of Maryland, shall have any interest in the business for which
license hereinunder is applied for; these provisions not to apply to any
licensed dealer in fermented or intoxicating liquors in said county who
has been such for two years preceding the first day of May, 1908. The
above statement, when required, shall be verified by affidavit of the appli-
cant or applicants made before a justice of the peace or notary public.
If any false statement of fact be made in any part of said petition, the
petitioner or petitioners shall, upon indictment or conviction thereof, be
deemed guilty of perjury, and the license, if any, shall be revoked, and
he or they be subject to the penalties provided by law for the crime of
perjury.

Ch. 248, 1886, held valid in Walker v. Oswald, 68 Md. 146, since the Act received
a majority voting on question, though not majority of those voting at election.

1886, ch. 248. 1898, ch. 214. 1908, ch. 380, sec. 321 (p. 1044).
638. After notice provided for in this Act there be no remonstrance
filed with said clerk against the issuing of any license applied for, said
clerk shall issue such license to said petitioner after his filing with said
clerk a bond as hereinafter provided for, and paying to said clerk for a
license to keep an oyster house, cook shop, victualling house, tavern, lager
beer saloon or any ordinary license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors;
and if the proposed place of sale is located in Hagerstown or within one
and one-half miles of the corporate limits thereof, the sum of five hundred
dollars in addition to the sum required by law to sell such liquors under
the provisions of Article 56 of the Code of Public General Laws. If the
proposed place is located outside of Hagerstown, at a greater distance
than one and one-half (1 1/2) miles from the corporate limits of said
Hagerstown, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, in addition to the
sum required by law, to sell such liquors under the provisions of Act* 56
of the Code of Public General Laws of the State of Maryland, as well
as the further sum of fifty cents as a fee to the clerk; provided, that if
there be any remonstrance filed against the issuing of such license to any
one petitioning therefor, the same clerk shall not issue the same, and the
Circuit Court for Washington county shall fix the date as early as prac-
ticable when said petition and remonstrance shall be heard and the said
court shall, in its discretion, whenever in its opinion the petitioner or peti-
tioners is or are unfit person or persons to be granted such license, or in
the discretion of the court, the place for which the said license is applied

*"Article" evidently intended.