ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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when and where naturalized; fourth, the name of the owner of

the premises upon which the business licensed is to be carried

on; fifth, a statement that the applicant is a citizen of the United

States, and that it is necessary for the accommodation of the

public that the place should be licensed; sixth, that the appli-

cant is not, or, if the application is from a firm, that none of the

applicants are in any manner pecuniarily interested in the profits

of the business conducted in any other place in said city where

any intoxicating liquors are sold or kept for sale; seventh, that

no person except the applicant is in any manner pecuniarily in-

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terested in the business petitioned to be licensed, and that no

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other person shall be pecuniarily interested therein during the

contain.

continuance of the license; eighth, that the applicants have not,

nor has any of them had a license for the sale of intoxicating li-

quors in this State revoked, nor has been convicted of any crime

within one year preceding the filing of said petition; ninth, the

names of not less than two reputable owners of real estate or

chattels real in the city of Annapolis, who will be his, her or

their securities on the bond which is required, and a statement

that each of said sureties is a bona fide owner of real estate or

chattels real in said city, worth over and above all incum-

brances the sum of one thousand dollars and that it would sell

for that much at public sale; and that neither of said sureties is

engaged in the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors ;

tenth, the petition must be verified by the affidavit of the peti-

Affidavit.

tioner, made before a justice of the peace; if any false statement

is made in any part of said petition, the petitioner or petitioners

shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon indictment and con-

viction thereof his license shall be revoked and he shall be sub-

ject to the penalties provided by law for that crime.

184 G. There shall be annexed to this petition a certificate signed

by at least ten reputable qualified voters residing or doing busi-

ness in the ward in which the petitioner asks to do business,

stating the residence or place of business of each person certify-

ing and setting forth that they have been acquainted with the

Certificate

petitioner or petitioners for (specifying the length of such

acquaintance), that they have good reason to believe that all the

statements contained in the petition are true, and they therefore

pray that the prayer of said petition be granted and the license

issued as prayed for.

184 H. The said mayor, counsellor and aldermen shall publicly

hear petitions from residents of the ward or persons living or

doing business in the vicinity of the place for which license is

prayed, in addition to that of the petitioner, in favor of, and re-

monstrance against the granting of said license; and in all cases

shall refuse the same whenever in the opinion of the said mayor,

counsellor and aldermen such license is not necessary for the