630

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

under the sub -title aforesaid, to be designated as sections

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L and M, and to read as

follows :

A. Every person applying for a license to keep an oyster

Applica-

house, cook shop, victualling house, tavern, lager beer

tions for
licenses

saloon, or ordinary to sell spirituous or fermented liquors or

within

lager beer within three miles of the corporate limits of the

three mile
of Cumber-

city of Cumberland, in every direction, but not within said

land.

city, shall file with the clerk of the Circuit Court for

Allegany County, his or her petition for such license, and

shall at the same time pay to said clerk two dollars for

expenses therewith, and said clerk shall cause to be pub-

lished three times in two leading newspapers of Cumberland

of opposite political parties, a list containing the names of

all such applicants, their respective residences and the place

of business for which such application is made ; the first

publication shall not be less than ten days, nor more than

twenty days, before the time fixed by said clerk for the

consideration of such application.

B. Said petition shall state the name and residence of

What the
appllcation

the applicant or applicants, and how long he, she or they

shall state

have resided there ; second, the particular place for which

a license is desired, designating the same by such apt

description as definitely locates it ; third, the name of the

owner of the premises upon which the business licensed, is

to be carried on ; fourth, a statement that the applicant is

a citizen of the United States ; fifth, that the applicant n or

applicants have not nor has either of them had a license for

the sale of intoxicating liquors revoked, nor has either of

them been convicted of any infamous crime within two

years preceding the filing of said petition ; sixth, that he,

she or they will not knowingly sell or allow to be sold in

said house or on said premises any liquors on Sundays or on

election days or to minors, at any time, or allow a minor to

drink in s'aid house or on said premises ; seventh, that he,

she or they will not permit gambling or keep or permit to

be kept a bawdy house in said house or on said premises, or

the gathering together in said house or on said premises of

women for lewd or immoral purposes ; eighth, the names of

not less than two reputable freeholders of Allegany County

who will be his, her or their sureties on the bond which is

required by this act and a statement that each of said

sureties is a bona fide owner of real estate in said county

worth over and above all incumbrances the sum of five

hundred dollars. This statement shall be verified by the

affidavit, of the applicant or applicants, made before a

justice of the peace. If any false statement be made in,