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liquors, he shall apply to the clerk of the circuit court for the
county in which he proposes to carry on such selling or bartering,
or disposing of goods, wares, chattels or merchandise; or if he
proposes to carry on such selling or bartering, or disposing of
goods, wares, chattels or merchandise, in the city of Baltimore,
to the clerk of the court of common pleas, for a license there-
for ; and a license to offer for sale, issued by said clerk of court
of common pleas, or by the clerk of the circuit court for any
county shall be good and sufficient as a license to offer for sale in
every part of the State; provided, that such license shall not
authorize the holder thereof to open or carry on any store or
fixed place of business for such selling or offering for sale in any
other city or county than the city or county in which such license
shall be issued; but no license to trade or to sell spirituous or
fermented liquors shall be issued by any clerk of a court to a
feme covert, or to any person under the age of twenty-one years,
without the special order of a judge of said court; and no judge
shall give such special order to issue such license to sell spirituous
or fermented liquors to a feme covert, or person under the age of
twenty-one years, unless upon the recommendation of at least ten
respectable freeholders, residents of the ward or districts wherein
said license would be operative; and whenever any license shall
be issued to a feme covert or minor, the said feme covert or per-
son under the age of twenty-one years shall be responsible for all
contracts made in the prosecution of such 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 law of this State, or in case she should keep a disorderly
house, as if she were a feme sole; and if judgment be obtained
against her on any contract, execution shall or may issue in the
ordinary way to affect her separate estate; provided, however,
that such responsibility shall in no manner affect or impair the
responsibility of the parent of such infant, under existing laws.
Cahen v. Jarrett, 42 Md 571. Corson v. State, 57 Md. 265.

P. G. L, (1860,) art 56, sec 43. 1858, ch 414, sec. 3.

37. The appllcant shall state to the clerk on oath, to be admin-
istered by the clerk, or if the applicant reside in a county to be