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LICENSES. [ART. 12.

Id 8. 69
1658, c 414, s 4,
1860, c 325, s 11
Retailer's
license, when to
be granted

7 1m No license shall be granted to sell spirituous and fermented
liquors or lager beer, in quantities not less than a pint, for the sum
of eighteen dollars, unless the person applying therefor shall also
obtain a license to sell goods, chattels, wares, and merchandise,
paying therefor the sum hereinbefore prescribed, according to the
amount of his stock in trade.

1874, c 439
Recommenda-
tion by grand
jury
42 Md 571.

72. It shall not be lawful for the clerks of the Circuit Courts of
this State, to issue any license for the sale of spirituous or fer-
mented liquors or lager beer to any person or body politic in this
State, unless such person or body politic, shall have been recom-
mended to said clerks by the grand jury, which shall have been in
session at the term next preceding the first day of May, in each and
every year, in the county where the applicant for such license shall
reside; provided, however, that this act or any of its provisions

To what city
and counties
not applicable

shall not apply to Baltimore city, Baltimore, Prince George's, Alle-
ghany, Somerset, Carroll, Howard, Washington, Wicomico, St.
Mary's, Dorchester, and Anne Arundel counties.

1862, c 119
License for
ordinary

73. If any person or body politic shall propose to open or keep
an ordinary, he shall apply to the clerk of the Circuit Court of the
county in which said applicant may reside, or if he reside in the
city of Baltimore, to the Court of Common Pleas, for a license
therefor; under which license spirituous or fermented liquors, or
lager beer, may be bartered or sold in quantities less than a pint.

Art 56, s 71
1858, c 414, s 5.
Recommenda-
tion by two
respectable
freeholders

74. A license to a person or body politic who proposes to open
or keep an ordinary shall be granted on the following terms: the
applicant shall be recommended to the clerk by two respectable
freeholders of his immediate vicinity, and shall make oath, to be by

Oath by appli-
cant
42 Md, 371.

the said clerk administered, that he has bond fide and without in-
tending to evade the requirements of this article, provided and ex-
pects to maintain six good beds, with sufficient covering therefor,
and three rooms, more than sufficient for the private uses of said
ordinary keeper, with stabling and provender for five horses at least;
and if said applicant resides in the city of Baltimore, that he has
provided and expects to maintain twelve good beds, with covering
as aforesaid, and six rooms.

Id s 72
1858, c 414, s 5
Rate of rent or
value of house.

75. The said applicant shall also state to the clerk, on oath to
be by him administered, the rate of rent or annual value of the house
or place at or in which the business to be authorized by the license
may be done, or intended to be done.

Id s 73
1858, c 414, s. 5
Amount

76. If the rent or annual value of said house or place does not
exceed one hundred dollars, the clerk, before granting said license,
shall receive therefor the sum of twenty-five dollars.

Id s 74
1858, c 414, s S.
Same

77. If such rent or annual value shall exceed one hundred dol-
lars, and shall not exceed two hundred dollars, the clerk shall, before
granting such license, receive therefor the sum of forty dollars.

Id s 75
1858, c 414, s 5.
same.

78. If the said rate of rent or annual value shall exceed two
hundred dollars, and does not exceed three hundred dollars, the
sum of fifty dollars.