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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

one time ; and no license shall be issued for a longer period

than one year ; if issued for a shorter period the licensee

shall pay for every month for which the license so issued is

to run, one-twelfth of the aunual charge for such license,

and all licenses shall expire on the first day of May

succeeding their issue. No lager beer or malt liquors

shall be sold by the bottler thereof to be drank on the

premises, unless such bottler shall have complied with all

the requirements of this act.

E. The clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany County

Record to
be kept.

shall keep a full record of all applications for license, and

all recommendations for and remonstrances against the

granting of any license or licensing, and the action thereon

(whether the same be granted or refused to be granted)

and said record shall be kept and preserved in the clerk's

office and be open to the inspection of the public.

Bond to be

F. No license shall he issued to any person or persons

given

until such person or persons shall have executed a bond to

the State of Maryland, in the penal sum of one thousand

dollars, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by the

clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany County, conditioned

for the faithful observance of all the laws of this State

relating to the selling or furnishing of vinous, spirituous,

malt brewed or fermented liquors, or any admixture thereof,

and to pay all costs, fines, and penalties, which may be

imposed on him, her or them, under any warrant or indict-

ment for violation of this act, or any other act of Assembly

relating to selling or furnishing liquors as aforesaid, and

the said bond, when so approved, shall be deposited with

said clerk who s n all record the same in a book to be kept

by him for that purpose, and said clerk shall be entitled to

a fee of fifty cents therefor to be paid by the applicant for

such license and the record thereof, or a duly certified copy,

shall be evidence in any court of law ; but no person shall

be accepted as a surety on any such bond who is interested

or engaged in the manufacture or sale of spirituous or

fermented liquors or lager beer, and no person shall be

accepted as surety on more than one bond iu any one year.

G. No licensee under the provisions of this act shall

Minors and
habitual

sell or furnish any intoxicating, spirituous or fermented

drunkards,

liquors at any time to a minor for his or her own use, but

such licensee may furnish to a minor for the use of a parent

or guardian such liquors upon the written order of such

parent or guardian when satisfied that such order is genuine.

No such licensee shall sell or furnish any intoxicating,

spirituous, or fermented liquors to any habitual drunkard

or to any person whose parent, guardian, husband, wife or