674 ARTICLE 3.

issue any license or to order the same to be issued, upon any application
unless the said judge or judges shall be satisfied that the applicant or
each of them, where the application is made by more than one person, is
a person of good moral character and has never been convicted of any
felony or of any violation of the liquor laws of Baltimore County within
one year preceding the filing of such application, and to whom the granting
of the license applied for is, in the opinion of said judge or judges, com-
patible with the peace, order, morality and good government of the county
or the vicinity of the place for which said license is to be granted; and
for the purpose of informing themselves upon the matters aforesaid the
said judges or any of them are empowered to make such inquiries and
investigations or to cause the same to be made by the State's Attorney
of Baltimore County for the information of such judge or judges, and to
summon by subpoena any person or persons as witnesses from whom they
may desire to obtain any information or testimony, and, upon due notice
to the applicant or applicants for the license under consideration and in
the presence of such applicant or applicants, if they desire to be present,
to examine and take the deposition of such witnesses in court, under oath,
to be administered by the court or the clerk thereof. The court, for any
reason disclosed by proof, may refuse to grant the license applied for.
In any case where the applicant or applicants, after due diligence, has
been misled as to the qualification of a signer or signers to his applica-
tion, as such qualification has been defined by this Act, the court or the
judge hearing the protests or having the application under consideration,
as aforesaid shall have power to allow him to substitute other signers
duly qualified, in the place and stead of those disqualified, in case the
license would be otherwise granted.

1890, ch. 334. 1908, ch. 179, sec. 7. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 227. 1916, sec. 338.

1928, sec. 417.

417. The clerk, in giving the notice required by Section 415 of this
Article, shall embrace in one notice all the names of all the persons whose
applications shall have been filed at the time of giving such notice, sepa-
rating them only so far as to make such notice easily intelligible to the
public, and if either of the days for the giving of said notice shall be a
Sunday, then such notice shall be given as soon thereafter as possible, so
as to secure two weekly insertions of such notice in a newspaper published
in said county before the time fixed for cause to be shown against the issu-
ance of the license applied for.

1890 ch. 334. 1908, ch. 179, sec. 8. B. Co. C. (1988), sec. 228. 1916, ch. 31, sec. 8.
B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 339. 1928, sec. 418.

418. The clerk of the court who received said application, certificates
and affidavits shall file and carefully preserve the same, and shall keep
in his office open to public inspection complete dockets with full and de-
tailed indexes containing the names, recorded in an orderly and syste-
matic way, of all applicants and of all signers upon all applications,
together with their respective addresses; and after giving the notices,