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the posting of such notice shall be borne by the applicant and every appli-
cant shall be required to pay to the Board of License Commissioners a
sufficient sum to cover the cost of such publication and notice before any
such publication and notice. At the time fixed by the notice for hearing
upon the application or upon any postponement of such time, any person
shall be heard on either side of the question, and in Baltimore City if it
shall appear that more than fifty percent (50%) in number of the owners
of real or leasehold property situated within 200 feet of the place of
business for which application is made are opposed to the granting of the
license, or if the Board of License Commissioners for said City or any
County determines that the granting of the license is not necessary for the
accommodation of the public or that the applicant is not a fit person to
receive the license applied for, or has made a material false statement in
his application, or has practiced fraud in connection with said applica-
tion, or that the operation of the business, if the license is granted, will
unduly disturb the peace of the residents of the neighborhood in which
the place of business is to be located, or that there are other reasons, in
the discretion of the Board, why the license should not be issued, then the
application shall be disapproved and the license applied for shall be re-
fused. If no such findings are made by the Board, then the application
shall be approved and the said Board shall issue its certificate of approval
for presentation to the Clerk of the Court of the County in which the place
of business is to be located, and the said Clerk shall issue the license ap-
plied for upon presentation of said certificate, and the payment of the fee
required.

1933 (Special Sess. ), ch. 2, sec. 7.

7. Procedure in Issue of Licenses in Counties Having No Board of
License Commissioners. In those counties having no Board of License
Commissioners, at least one week before the Clerk shall issue any license,
he shall cause a notice of the application to be advertised one time in some
newspaper published or generally circulated in the County or City in
which the licensed place of business is proposed to be located, and the
said notice shall indicate that the license will be granted unless a written
protest is filed with the Clerk of the Court, on or before the expiration
of one week from the date of such publication. No such protest shall be
valid to delay the issue of such a license unless the same has been signed
by ten or more reputable citizens of the state who are real estate owners
in the voting precinct in which the business sought to be licensed is to be
carried on.

If such objections against the granting of any such license in any of the
counties are filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County in
which the business is to be conducted, then the application, the objections
and any other papers or documents appertaining thereto shall be forth-
with transmitted by the Clerk of the Court to the Bureau of State Licenses,
which, for the purpose of administering this Article, shall comprise the
Chief Inspector, provided for in Section 7 of Article 56 of the Code of