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the Court of the County in which the place of business is to be located,
and the said Clerk shall issue 'the license applied for upon presentation of
said certificate, and the payment of the fee required.

1939, ch. 486, sec. 6A.

17. If an application for a license in Anne Arundel County is refused,
no further application for a license for the same premises shall be made
until a year shall expire from the date of such refusal. If a license for
certain premises in Anne Arundel County is twice refused, no license shall
be granted for the sale of alcoholic beverages upon such premises, for a
period of two years from the date of such second refusal.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 7. 1933 (Special Sess. ), ch. 2, sec. 7.

18. (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 8 of Article 56 of the Code of
Public General Laws, and not more than two assistants to be appointed by
the Comptroller, subject only to the approval of the Governor, and the said
Bureau, after due notice to the applicant and to one or more of the objec-
tors or their attorney, at the address disclosed upon the protest, shall pro-
ceed to hear and determine the said objections and shall notify the Clerk
of the Court of the Bureau's findings thereon. If the Bureau 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 such license,
or has made a material false statement in his application, or has practiced
fraud in the application, or that the operation of the business if the license
is granted, will unduly disturb the peace of the residents of the neighbor-
hood 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 no such license shall be
issued. If no such findings are made by the Bureau, then the application
shall be approved and the Clerk shall forthwith issue the license applied
for upon receipt of notice or a certificate of approval from the Bureau,
and upon payment of the fee required. The findings of the Bureau in
connection with all such applications shall be final. If no written objec-