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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

dred dollars, and be imprisoned in the county jail

sixty days for each and every offence; and it shall be

the duty of any justice of the peace, upon informa-
tion received and confirmed by the oath of a credible

witness, to have any person violating any of the pro-

visions of this section arrested and committed to

the county jail, unless he or they shall give sufficient

bail or recognizance, with sureties, to be approved

by said justice, to appear' before the circuit court

at the next succeeding term thereof, to answer said

charge.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That if it shall be

found by said returns of judges of said election and

proclamation of said clerk that a majority of said

votes in either of the said hereinbefore mentioned

districts to which this act refers, have been cast for

restricted license to sell spirituous or fermented li-

quors, that then, and in that event, the following sec-

Additional

tions shall be added to article twenty-two of the

sections add-

Code of Public Local Laws of Somerset county, to

ed.

refer only to such districts hereinbefore mentioned,

in which there shall have been, by the proclamation

of said clerk, a majority of votes cast for restricted

license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors, under

the sub-title "Sales of Spirituous or Fermented Li-

quors," to take effect on the first day of June next.

SUB-SECTION A. No person in either of the said

districts, in Somerset county, in which there was a

majority for restricted license, as set forth in the

Qualification

preceding section, shall obtain a license for the sale

or barter of spirituous or fermented liquors in any

quantity whatever, except such as shall be qualified

as hereinafter provided.

SUB-SECTION B. Any person in either of said dis-

tricts, in Somerset county, in which there was a

majority for restricted license, as set forth in section

five of this act, who may keep a house for the re-

Hotel keeper

ception of guests, or of permanent or transient

defined.

boarders, containing at least two chambers more

than are needed for his family purposes, and which

said two or more chambers are used for the reception

of guests, or permanent or transient boarders, con-

taining therein for use at all times at least four good