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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

to make it a customary place of visitation or resort, may at

any time on indictment and conviction be revoked by the

Circuit Court for Allegany County and the same person

shall not again be licensed within two years of the time of

such revocation.

175 L. Any person doing business under a license issued

under the provisions of this act shall not permit any other

Who not to
have an in-

person who has been refused a license under said provisions,

terest in.

or whose license has been revoked, to have any interest

whatever in said business ; and if it be so shown to the

Circuit Court for Allegany County by satisfactory proof

that any such person has any interest in any business carried

on under a license issued under the provisions of this act.

said court shall after giving the party holding such license

fifteen days' written notice revoke the same.

175 M. Any person or persons holding a license issued

Licenses

under the provisions of this act may assign the unexpired

assignable.

term thereof to another, provided that said assignee shall

comply with all the requirements and provisions of this act

in the same manner as is hereby required of an original

applicant for a liceuse under this act, and upon such transfer

the license so transferred shall have the consent of the clerk

of the Circuit Court for Allegany County endorsed on said

license ; and the such assignee shall in every respect be

subject to all the requirements, provisions and penalties of

this act, and also of all privileges and benefits hereby

conferred.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts

Repeal.

inconsistent with the provisions of this act (so far as the

same are so inconsistent) are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall not take

Act to be

effect until the same shall have been submitted to and

effective

determined by the qualified voters of said city of Cumber-

only if
adopted by

land at its city election to be held in May, eighteen hundred

voters.

and ninety-two, when if it shall be determined by a majority

of the votes then cast in favor of this act the licenses shall

be issued in conformity thereto, and provided that any

person applying for license under the present existing laws

and paying for the same —— now provided by law shall in

the event of this act being adopted be entitled to a credit

on account of the license fee herein provided for to the

extent of the amount so paid said clerk ; and in the event

of any person who shalls have received a license under the

now existing law being refused a license under this act,

that the pro rata amount of such sum shall be refunded to

such person, and provided that should this act become