396

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

title "Liquor and Intoxicating Drinks, "so far as the same

Repeal.

applies to that part of the second election district of

New
sections.

Howard County included within the corporate limits of

Ellicott City, be and the same are hereby repealed, and that

new sections to come in after section ninety-eight of said

article fourteen be added thereto to be known as sections

ninety-eight A, ninety-eight B, ninety -eight C, ninety -eight

D, ninety-eight E, ninety -eight F, and ninety-eight G.

Sole of

98 A. No person after the first day of May, eighteen

liquor in
Ellicott

hundred and ninety -two, shall sell or barter, offer for sale,

City

barter or keep for sale or barter in that part of the second

election district of Howard County, included within the

corporate limits of Ellicott City any spirituous or fermented

liquors or lager beer except as hereinafter provided.

98 B. Any person desiriug to obtain a license to sell

spirituous or fermented liquors or lager beer in that part of

Applica-
tion for

the second election district of Howard County included

license

within the corporate limits of Ellicott City, shall file an

application in writing with the clerk of the Circuit Court

for Howard County, in which he shall state ; first, his or

her name and that he or she is a resident of the second

election district of Howard County ; second, that he or she

is a citizen of the United States, and has been for twelve

months next preceding the filing of such application, a bona

fide resident of the State of Maryland ; third, that the

application is not, or if the application is by a firm, that

none of the applicants are in any manner pecuniarily in-

terested in the profits of any business conducted at any

other place iu that part of Ellicott City affected by this

sub-title where any spirituous or fermented liquors are sold

or kept for sale ; and fourth, the particular place where the

business is to be conducted under the license sought, speci-

fying the same by definite designation and description ;

which said application shall be verified by the affidavit of

the applicant, made before the clerk of the court to whom

the application is made, and if any false statement is made

in any part oi said application, the applicant or applicants

shall be guilty of perjury and upon indictment and convic-

tion shall be punished accordingly and any license issued

upon such application shall be suppressed.

98 C. There shall be annexed to said application a cer-

Certificate
of free-

tificate signed by at least five reputable freeholders, bona

holders.

fiae residents of that part of Ellicott City affected by this

sub -title in which the persons certifying shall state that

they recommend the applicant as a suitable person to whom

such a license should be issued.