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hereinbefore required, if no cause be shown as hereinbefore provided,
and in cases in which the objections shall be overruled or in which the
court shall approve of and direct the granting and issuing of the license,
shall issue to the applicant or applicants the license applied for upon
receiving from the applicant or applicants the following sums or license
fees, viz: If the license ia for twelve months, and to sell spirituous, fer-
mented or intoxicating liquors, or both, by the drink or in quantities not
more than four and seven-eighths gallons, and such license is herein defined
To be a retail license, the sum of four hundred dollars; if the license is
for twelve months, and to sell spirituous, fermented or intoxicating liquors
in quantities not less than a pint and not to be drunk on the premises, and
such license is herein defined to be a wholesale license, the said clerk shall
inquire of the applicant, under oath by such clerk administered, as to the
value of the stock of spirituous or fermented liquors intended to be kept
on hand in the business he proposes to conduct under the license applied
for, and if it shall appear from the statement then made under oath that
the value of the applicant's stock of spirituous or fermented liquors will
not exceed one thousand dollars, the license fee shall be four hundred dol-
lars; if more than one thousand dollars, and not exceeding two thousand
dollars, the license fee shall be four hundred and fifty dollars; if more
than two thousand dollars, the license fee shall be five hundred dollars.
If the license is for twelve months, and to sell spirituous, fermented or
intoxicating liquors in original packages as filled and prepared for delivery
by any brewer or brewing company, and such license is herein defined to
be a brewers' license, the license fee shall be fifteen hundred dollars. Be-
fore issuing any license under this Act, the Clerk of the Circuit Court
or his acting deputy issuing the same shall ask the applicant or applicants
Avhether he, she or they have read and understand the requirements and
conditions of the law relating to the granting of said license and to the
sales of said liquors thereunder, and if such applicant or applicants answer
"yes," then the clerk or his deputy acting in the particular case shall issue
the license and shall sign his name upon the margin of the same so that he
may thereafter be able to identify his said signature; but if such applicant
or applicants shall answer that they have not read or do not understand
said requirements and conditions of the law, the clerk or his acting deputy
shall not issue such license and shall continue to decline to issue the same
until the applicant or applicants shall answer that they have read and
understand said requirements and conditions.

1890, ch. 334. 1908, ch. 179, sec. 9. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 229. 1916, ch. 31, sec. 9.
B. Co. G. (1916), sec. 340. 1928, sec. 419.

419. If the license applied for shall be for six months, then the license
fee shall be one-half of the amounts severally specified for the twelve
months' licenses enumerated in the preceding section.

1916, ch. 31, sec. 9A. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 341. 1928, sec. 420.

420. Each wholesale or retail license issued under or by virtue of this
Act shall be deemed and taken to be a license to, of and for the place,