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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

holders living within three miles of the place where said liquors

or alcoholic bitters are to be sold, as a fit person to traffic in the

article, nor until such person or persons applying for such license

shall have filed with said clerk a bond with at least two sureties,

to be approved by said clerk, in the penal sum of two thousand

File bond.

dollars, conditioned for the payment of all fines, penalties, costs

and damages to which the person or persons obtaining the said

license may become liable for any violation of any of the license

laws of this State; and the said clerk is hereby prohibited from

approving any bond under this section unless it shall appear to

him by good evidence that the sureties in said bond are worth in

real estate double the amount of the penalty of said bond, and

that in no event shall any person sell such article on the Sabbath

day and commonly called "Sunday," and for the viglation of this

provision such person, natural or artificial, shall be subjected to

the penalties provided for in section four of this act.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of said

clerk of the circuit court for Garrett county to require from each

applicant for license as aforesaid, in addition to any requirements

Affidavit

of the general license laws of this State, a written affidavit to be

filed in his office in which said applicant shall state the situation

of the house or place of business and premises, including all the-

buildings and grounds occupied or used in connection therewith,

at or in which the sales to be authorized by said license, may be

or are proposed to be me de, the rate of rent or annual value thereof

and the owner of said house or place of business and premises ;

also, that each of the petitioners signing the petition of said ap-

plicant is such a free-holder as is required by section six, and

lives within three miles of the said proposed place of business of

said applicant; and no petitioner shall sign for more than one ap-

plicant, and said clerk may, in his discretion, require such other

and further proof by the written affidavits of other parties to be

filed in his office or otherwise as to the compliance, in good faith

of said applicant with the requirements of this act as he may

deem proper.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That all sums received by said clerk

for the use of said county shall be accounted for and paid over to

the county school commissioners of said county on the first day

of January and July of each and every year, and the said clerk

To pay
over.

shall be liable for all said sums on his official bond, and shall, in

addition to the fees now allowed him, be entitled to receive the

sum of one dollar for approving and filing the bond and other

papers in each application, said one dollar to be paid by the ap-

plicants for license in addition to the sum to be paid for said,

license.

SEC. 9, And be it enacted, That whoever by the sale of in-

toxicating liquors contrary to the provisions of this act, causes