ART. 71.] ORDINARY AND INN KEEPERS AND RETAILERS. 1031

ARTICLE LXXI.

ORDINARY AND INN KEEPERS AND RETAILERS.

1. Who may keep. 2. Accommodations. 3. Disorderly house; circuit or crimi- nal court may withdraw license, orphans' court, during recess of such courts.

4. Harboring or selling to apprentices. 5. Depository for valuables. 6. Exemption from liability for valu- ables not so deposited.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 70, sec. 1. 1780, ch 24, sec. 6.

1. No person shall be admitted to keep an ordinary other than
the master, principal, or head of the house in which such ordi-
nary shall be kept.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1780, ch. 24, sec. 5. 1858, ch. 414, sec. 5.

2. Every ordinary or inn keeper shall keep accommodations
for travellers, as provided in the article regulating licenses.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1780, ch. 24, sec. 7. 1784, ch. 7, sec. 9. 1831, ch. 323, sec. 11.

3. If an ordinary or inn 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 drunk in or about his
house, the circuit court for the county, or the criminal court of
Baltimore, if the offence is committed in said city, may, on appli-
cation or remonstrance, withdraw the license of such person to
retail spirituous or fermented liquors, and shall exercise a sound
discretion relative thereto; and during the recess of said courts,
the orphans' courts, at their several sessions, shall and may exer-
cise a similar power, authority and discretion.

Downs v. State, 19 Md. 571.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1780, ch. 24, sec. 17.

4. If any ordinary or inn 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.