FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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98 D. Upon said application and certificate being filed

with the clerk of the Circuit Court for Howard County, the

Cost of

said clerk shall issue to such applicant a license for a period

license.

not longer than twelve months upon receiving from said

applicant the following sum or license fee, viz.: If the

license be for twelve months, and to sell spirituous and fer-

mented liquors and lager beer, the sum of three hundred

dollars ; if issued for a shorter period, the licensee shall pay

for every month or fractional part of a month for which his

or her license is to run, one-twelfth of the annual charge

for such license, and all such licenses shall expire on the

first day of May succeeding the day on which they are

issued.

98 E. The whole of the money received by the clerk of

the Circuit Court for Howard County for the license afore-

said, shall be paid over quarterly by said clerk to the State ,

License
revenue—

as other license moneys are paid as 'now provided by law,
and when so paid over, the comptroller of the treasury shall

how
applied.

draw his warrant upon the treasurer in favor of the mayor

and city council of Ellicott City for three-fourths thereof to

be applied to the general use of said city.

98 F. Every person receiving a license uuder this sub-

title shall frame his or her license under a glass and place

License to.
be framed

the same so that it shall at all times be conspicuous and

easily read in his or her chief place of making his or her

sales, and no license issued under this sub-title shall

authorize sales by any person who shall neglect this

requirement.

98 G. Any person, or persons, or company having a

license under the provisions of this sub-title who shall here-

after be convicted of violating any of the provisions of this

Fines.

act, or the conditions of his, her or their license, shall be

subjected to a fine of not less than one hundred nor more

than six hundred dollars ; and for any second offense

whereof, he, she or they shall be convicted, his, her or their

license shall be vacated and revoked ; and he, she or they

shall be subjected to a fine of not less than five hundred

dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, or to imprison-

ment in the jail of Howard County, or in the House of Cor-

rection for not less than three months nor more than twelve

months, or to both fine and imprisonment in the discretion

of the court ; the license of any person or company who per-

mits minors to frequent or loiter about his, her or their

place, or disreputable or disorderly persons to make it a

customary place of visitation, or resort, may be, at any

time, upon proof, revoked by the Circuit Court for Howard,