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XVI.—LIABILITY OF MARRIED WOMEN AND MINORS ON
CONTRACTS AND BUSINESS, UNDER LICENSES TO TRADE
OR TO SELL LIQUORS.

Contracts, suits, execution

Whenever any license shall be issued to a feme covert, or minor, under section 42 of article XII of this Code, the said feme covert, or minor, shall be responsible for all contracts made in the pros- ecution of their business under such license, and shall be liable to be sued therefor in any of the courts of this State; and the said feme covert may be sued, or indicted, and prosecuted, in case of a violation by her of the license laws of this State, or in case she should keep a disorderly house, as if she were a feme sole; and	1862, c 49. Married women or minors
if judgment be obtained against her on any contract, execution	Contracts
shall or may issue in the ordinary way to affect her separate estate ;	Suits.
provided, however, that such responsibility shall in no manner affect or impair the responsibility of the husband or parent, under the existing laws.	Execution.

XVII.—LIABILITY OF ORDINARY KEEPERS.

1 Who may keep ordinary. 2 Accommodations 3 Disorderly house, when license witMdrawn 4 Harboring, etc , apprentices

5 Safe for valuables , liability 6 Notice, exoneration, negligence or col- lusion

1. No person shall be admitted to keep an ordinary other than the master, principal, or head of the house in which such ordinary	Art 70, 8 1 1780, c 24, s 6 Who may keep ordinary.
shall be kept. 2, Every ordinaiy keeper shall keep accommodations for travel- lers, as provided in the article regulating licenses. 3. If any ordinary keeper keeps a disorderly house, or if any retailer keeps a disorderly house, or suffers any liquor by him sold or bartered, mixed or unmixed. to be drank in or about his house, the Circuit Court of the county, or of the Criminal Court of Balti- more, if the offence is committed in said city, may, on application	Id s. 2. 1780, c 24, s 5 . 1858, c 414, s 5 Accommo- dations Id s. 3 1780, c 24, s 7 , 1784, c 7, B 9 , 1881, c 323,8 11. Disorderly house 19 Md 671.
or remonstrance, witMdraw the license of such person to retail spirituous or fermented liquors, and shall exercise a sound discre-	Liquor drunk on premises
tion relative thereto; and during the recess of said courts, the Orphans' Courts, at their several sessions, shall and may exercise a similar power, authority, and discretion	When license witMdrawn
4. If any ordinary keeper shall harbor, entertain, or sell any liquor to any apprentice without license in writing from his master, he shall for every offence forfeit the sum of ten dollars.	Id s 4. 1780, c 24, s 17 Harboring, etc , apprentices.
5. Any ordinary keeper in any city or town having a population of more than five hundred inhabitants, who shall provide an iron	Id s 5 1834 c 323, s 1 Safe for valu- ables.