ELIHU B. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 595.

AN ACT to amend section two hundred and eight, of article ten,

of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Dorchester county,"

sub-title "Liquors and Intoxicating Drinks," by adding certain

sub-sections thereto.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That section two hundred and eight, of article ten, of the Code

Amend.

of Public Local Laws, title "Dorchester county," sub-title

"Liquors and Intoxicating Drinks," be and the same is hereby

amended by adding the following sub-sections thereto.

SUB-SECTION 1. No cider shall be sold in any of the election

districts of Dorchester county, wherein the sale of whisky or other
intoxicating liquors is unlawful, except apple cider made in said

Not to sell

county from fruit grown or produced therein; and no apple cider
shall be sold in any of said election districts that has been

adulterated or affected with alcohol or intoxicating liquors or

with any drug whatsoever.

SUB-SEC. 2. No one shall be allowed to sell apple cider in any

of said election districts unless he shall first procure a license

License.

from the clerk of the circuit court for said county, and shall take

the oath hereinafter prescribed.

SUB-SEC. 3. The board of school commissioners for said county

shall furnish to said clerk a sufficient number of blank licenses,

each license shall be numbered as it, is issued, and shall con-

tain the name of the person or firm procuring the same, the

name of the election district wherein the business is to be

carried on, and the date when the license begin a and ceases

to operate; each license shall begin to operate on the first

Blank

day of the month wherein it is issued and shall end on the first

licenses.

of May following, such license may be issued so as to operate for

one year from the first day of May in one year, and to the first

day of May in the.f ollowing year; the sum of twelve dollars shall

be paid for every license that is to operate for one year, but if

any person or firm ask a license after the first day of May in any

year, he shall pay at the rate of one dollar for each month it is

intended to operate to the first day of the following May; no

license shall be issued for the fraction of a month.

SUB-SEC. 4. On the first day of April and on the first day of

October in each year, the said clerk shall make a report to said

school commissioners as to the number of licenses issued and the

Make

proceeds delivered therefrom; out of the amount received for

report.

each license the clerk shall retain fifty cents as a fee for his ser-

vices, and shall pay over the balance of the proceeds to the school

commissioners for the use of the public schools of the said county.

SUB-SEC. 5. The said school commissioners shall procure and