ELIHU B. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 412. No license to sell spirituous and fermented liquors

in Cecil county shall be granted to any hotel keeper who shall

have complied with the provisions of this act, until such appli-

cant shall pay to the clerk aforesaid the sum of two hundred and

fifty dollars, if said applicant shall desire a license to sell spiritu-

ous or fermented liquors in any incorporated town in said county,

License
tax.

or within two miles of the corporate limits thereof, and the sum

of one hundred and fifty dollars if said applicant shall desire to

sell spirituous or fermented liquors in said county not within the

limits nor within two miles thereof of any incorporated town

therein; and the said amounts received by said clerk for licenses

as aforesaid, shall be by him paid over to the county commis-

sioners of said county for the use of said county.

SEC. 413. No license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors in

Cecil county shall be granted to any applicant other than a hotel

keeper within the meaning of this act, who shall have complied

Not hotel-

with the provisions of this act, unless said applicant shall pay to

keepers.

said clerk the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars; and the

amounts so received by said clerk for said licenses to be paid over

to the board of county commissioners of Cecil county for the use

of said county.

SEC. 414. All sums received by said clerk for licenses issued

under this act shall be accounted for and paid over by said clerk

to the county commissioners of Cecil county within thirty days

To pay

after the receipt of the same, and the official bond of said clerk

over.

shall be liable for all said sums received for licenses issued

under this act, and said clerk shall be entitled to charge and re-

ceive the sum of two dollars and fifty cents for each license issued

by him under the provisions of this act, to be paid by the appli-

cant therefor.

SEC. 415. All licenses issued under this act shall expire on the

first day of May next thereafter, but licenses may be issued for a

shorter period than one year upon the payment of a proportionate
part of the license fee hereinbefore provided for; licenses issued

To empire

under this act shall be transferable only when the transferee shall

May 1.

duly establish his qualifications for the sale of spirituous and

fermented liquors as though an original applicant for license

therefor under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 416. No pharmacist or druggist in Cecil county shall sell

directly or indirectly any spirituous or fermented liquors or alco-

holic bitters or intoxicating drinks of any kind, except upon the

written bona fide prescription of a regular practicing physician of
Cecil county, whose name shall be signed thereto, and all such

Pharma-

cists.

prescriptions shall be filed and kept by such pharmacist or drug-

gist for one year, and no prescription shall answer for more than

one purchase, and no physician shall make or sign any such pre-

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