672 ARTICLE 3.

ingly made by any such applicant with regard to any of the matters stated
or required to be stated in said application or in any part thereof, the
applicant or applicants who made oath to said application before said,
clerk shall be deemed guilty of the crime of perjury, and upon indictment
and conviction shall be punished as the laws of Maryland require that
crime be punished; and each of the statements above required to be made-
in said application is hereby declared to be a material and essential con-
dition upon which said license is applied for, issued and granted, and if
at any time it shall appear or be made to appear to the presiding judge
or judges of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County that any false state-
ment contained in said application has been knowingly made upon the
part of the applicant or any applicant therein, any license issued upon,
such application shall be revoked, annulled and suppressed.

The forms of application for license, as aforesaid, shall contain appro-
priate places with proper and sufficient spaces for each and all of the
statements above mentioned and required.

Lochnar v. State, 111 Md. 660. Goeller v. State, 119 Md. 61.

1890, ch. 334. 1908, ch. 179, sec. 4. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 223. 1916, ch. 31, sec. 4.
B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 335. 1928, sec. 414.

414. There shall be annexed to said application a certificate signed
by at least ten reputable taxpayers who are, and for at least one year prior
to the date of said application have been, actual bona fide residents of the
neighborhood in which the applicant or applicants propose to conduct busi-
ness under the license applied for, in which the person certifying shall
each state his or her place of residence or place of business; that he or
she is over twenty-one years of age; how long he or she has known the
applicant or applicants; that he or she believes the statements contained in
the application to be true; that from his or her knowledge of the applicant
or applicants, and his or her acquaintance with him or them, he or she
believes the applicant or applicants is or are 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; but
where a person signs more than one application and a license has actually
been issued under one of such applications, his name shall not be con-
sidered on the other applications, and as to them, his signature shall be
treated as a nullity and disregarded by the court, and in cases where a
person has signed more than one application and no license has been issued
as above mentioned, the court shall decide upon which application his
name shall be considered, and when the court shall have determined the
application upon which his name shall be considered, his signature upon
others shall be disregarded, it being the intent of this Act that no person
shall validly sign more than one application; but this section shall not
apply to wholesale dealers nor to brewers.

1890, ch. 334. 1908, ch. 179, sec. 5. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 225. 1916, ch. 31, sec. 5.
B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 336. 1928, sec. 415.

415. Upon the filing of such application and certificate the applicant
or applicants shall pay to the clerk with whom the same are filed the sum