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shall set the same down for hearing, and when upon such hearing the
court shall, in its discretion, determine that the public welfare and the
peace and good order of the community require it, revoke such license,
and the person whose license is so revoked shall not again be granted a
license under this Act within two years from the date of such revocation,
unless so otherwise ordered by the court; provided, however, that when .
the license is so revoked, the licensee shall be entitled to a return of the
unearned portion of the license fees paid, and a certified copy of the order
of said court revoking said license together with a statement of the clerk
thereof as to the amount due shall be sufficient warrant to the officers to
whom said license fees had been paid respectively for repayment of said
unearned license fee. In the trial of all remonstrances, evidence of
general reputation of the applicant or applicants, licensee and house shall
be admissible in evidence. It is the intention of this Act that licensees
to sell spirituous and fermented liquors under article 56 of the Code of
Public General Laws of the State of Maryland for the year 1904 shall in
all respects be subject to the conditions, provisions and penalties of this
Act.

Conocheague Club v. State, 116 Md. 317.

1908, ch. 380. sec. 325F (p. 1050).

648. Any person or persons doing business under a license issued
under the provisions of this Act shall not permit any other person who has
been refused a license under said provisions or whose license has been
revoked under the provisions of this Act, to have any interest whatever
in said business; and if it be shown to the Circuit Court for Washington
county by satisfactory proof that any such person or persons has or have
any interest in said business carried on under a license issued under the
provisions of this Act, said court shall, after giving the party holding
such license fifteen days' written notice, revoke the same.

1908, ch. 380, sec. 325G (p. 1050).

649. Any person or persons holding a license issued under the pro-
visions of this Act may assign the unexpired term thereof to another, pro-
vided that said assignee shall comply with all the requirements and pro-
visions of this Act in the same manner as is hereby required of an original
applicant for a license under this Act, and upon such transfer the license
so transferred shall have the consent of the clerk of the Circuit Court for
Washington county indorsed thereon, and such assignee shall in every
respect be subject to all requirements, provisions and penalties of this
Act, and also of all privileges and benefits hereby conferred.

1914, ch. 127.

650. If any person who has taken out a license under the provisions
of Article Twenty-two of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
title "Washington County," sub-title "Liquors and Intoxicating Drinks,"
as enacted by Chapter 380 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land of the year 1908, shall die, his widow, executor or administrator may