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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 427.

AN ACT to regulate the sale of spirituous and fermented

liquors in St Mary's County and to regulate the issuing

of license therefor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Licenses.

Maryland, That no person shall hereafter sell, offer for sale,

or keep for sale in St. Mary's County any intoxicating liquors

of any kind without having previously obtained a license

therefor as hereinafter provided ; but this act shall not apply

to sales made under a decree or provision of law, or the execu-

tion of a judgment of a court nor to sales in unbroken pack-

ages by the maker thereof of cider or native wines, and all

licenses issued shall expire on the first day of May next suc-

ceeding their issue.

SEC. 2. All persons desiring to obtain a license to sell

Applica-

spirituous or fermented liquors in St. Mary's County, shall

tion for

file applications in writing, with the clerk of the Circuit

Court of St. Mary's County, thirty days before the first day

of May, or thirty days before any license shall be issued,

with recommendation of ten respectable freeholders in the

immediate vicinity or district of the location where such

applicant proposes or desires to do business, stating that

said applicant is a citizen of good reputation and a proper

person to entrust with such licensed privileges. All such

applicants shall file a statement with said clerk, stating

their full names, the location and ownership of the place

where they so desire to do business, that he or they, is or

are citizens of the United States, and have been so for

twelve months next preceding the filing of such applica tion,

and a bona fide resident of Maryland, and for three months

next preceding such application, a bona fide resident of St.

Mary's County, the kind of license desired ; that no person

except the applicant or applicants is or are in any manner

pecuniarily interested in the business petitioned to be

licensed, and that no person shall be pecuniarily interested

therein during the continuance of the license asked for ; that

the applicant or applicants will not violate the laws of the

State, by selling any liquors so licensed to be sold on Sun-

days, election days or other days on which the sale of liquor

is prohibited by law, nor to minors except upon the written

order of such minor's parent, guardian, or employer, on the

prescription of a regular physician, and only once on any

one prescription; said application to be verified by the

Verified

affidavit of such applicant administered in due conformity

to law.