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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

within the limits of the town or of the election district wherein

the said applicant desires to sell, setting forth their belief that

the applicant for such license will keep an orderly house and duly

observe all the provisions of this act; and each person signing

said certificate shall make affidavit before said clerk, or before a

justice of the peace of said county, that he is the owner of real

estate in the election district wherein he resides of the assessed

value of at least five hundred dollars, and that he has not during

the current year signed a certificate for any other person applying

for license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors within said dis-

trict, and said applicant if for a hotel license, shall satisfy the

said clerk by his own oath and by the oath of two respectable and

disinterested witnesses of their belief therein that he has, bona

fide and without intending to evade the spirit and meaning of this

act, duly provided and will maintain and keep for use at least five

chambers more than are needed for private or family purposes of

said hotel keeper, to be used for the reception of guests or perma-

nent or transient boarders, and at least six beds with sufficient

covering therefor with stabling for at least six horses, all of said

chambers and beds to be and remain on the said premises on which

spirituous or fermented liquors are by this act licensed to be sold;

Bond

and each and every applicant whether a hotel keeper or not shall

file in the office of said clerk a bond duly executed to the State of

Maryland with at least two sureties, to be approved by said clerk in

the penal sum of one thousand dollars conditioned for the faithful

observance of the provisions of this act, and the payment of any and

all fines, penalties and damages which may be imposed or recovered

under this act; provided, that each surety on said bond shall

make affidavit before said clerk, or before a justice of the peace of

said county, that said surety is the owner in fee-simple of unen-

cumbered real estate in Kent county of the assessed value of at

least one thousand dollars, and that said surety has not within

the current year executed a bond for any other applicant to sell

spirituous or fermented liquors in Kent county; the clerk of the

circuit court may in his discretion, require such further and other

proof by the written affidavit of other parties as to the sufficiency

Fine.

of said bond, as he may deem proper, and if said clerk shall wil-

fully or negligently grant a license to any person who shall not
have complied with the provisions of this act, said clerk shall

upon indictment and conviction therefor be fined not less than

fifty nor more than three hundred dollars for each offense.

151. No license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors in Kent

county shall be granted to any hotel keeper who shall have com-

License
fee.

plied with the provisions of this act, until such applicant in

addition to the sum or sums now required or which hereafter

may be required to be paid by the general license law of the State,

shall also pay to said clerk the sum of three hundred dollars, to