ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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ture of liquors which shall contain more than two per cent, by

weight of alcohol, and every mixture of liquors which shall con-

tain less than two per cent, of alcohol, if the same shall be intoxi-

cating; nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the

sale of any intoxicating liquors or any admixture thereof, in any

part of said city where such sale now is, or shall hereafter be pro-

hibited by special law.

653 B. The governor shall, on or before the tenth day of April,

in the year eighteen hundred and ninety, appoint three persons,

not more than two of whom shall belong to the same political

party, who shall constitute a board of liquor license commis-

Board.

sioners for Baltimore city, who shall hold their office for the

period of two years, and whose successors shall be appointed by
the governor biennially, by and with the advice and consent of

the Senate, their duties shall be such as are hereinafter prescribed.

653 C. The said board shall appoint such clerk or clerks as

the proper transaction of the business of the board shall require;

and shall keep a full record of all applications for license, of all

recommendations for, and remonstrances against the granting of

licenses, and of their action thereon; and the vote of the members

Records.

of said board, by yeas and nays, shall be taken on the question

of granting or refusing every application for license, and said

records of said board shall, at all suitable times, be open to the

inspection of the public; all necessary books and stationery shall

be furnished by the mayor and city council of Baltimore, and

all salaries and expenses necessarily incident to the business of

the board shall be paid by said mayor and city council.

653 D. The said board shall fix the salaries of all clerks ap-

pointed by them for the performance of the duties imposed by

this act, and the members of said board shall each receive a

Salaries.

salary of fifteen hundred dollars, to be paid as the salaries of offi-

cers of the city of Baltimore are paid.

653 E. No licenses to sell intoxicating liquors other than by

wholesale traders, distillers, brewers and rectifiers, shall be granted

Licenses.

in the city of Baltimore except by said board, and only to citizens

of the United States of temperate habits and good moral char-

acter, who have complied with the requisites of this act.

653 F. No license shall be issued for a longer period than one

year; if issued for a shorter period the licensee shall pay for every

month for which his license is to run one-twelfth of the annual

Period.

charge for such license, and all such licenses shall expire on the

first day of May succeeding their issue, on which day all licenses

issued by the said board shall expire.

653 G. Every person applying for a license to sell intoxicating

liquors in said city shall file with the said board his, her, or their

Petitions.

petition for such license, and said board shall cause notification

of said petition to be published three times in two newspapers of