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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.

L. Any person doing business under a license issued

Who not

under the provisions of this act, shall not permit any other

to do busi-
ness under

person who has been refused a license under said provisions,

a license.

or whose license has been revoked, to have any interest

whatever in said business ; and if be shown to the Circuit

Court for Allegany County by satisfactory proof that any

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.

M. Any person or persons holding a license issued under

Licenses

the provisions of this act, may assign the unexpired term

assignable.

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 license 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 assignee shall in every respect be subject
to all the requirements, provisions and penalties of this act,

and also all the privileges and benefits hereby conferred.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts

Repealed.

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

same are so inconsistent), are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage ; provided, however, that all

licenses in force at the time of the adoption of this act shall

continue in force until the first day of May eighteen hun-

dred and ninety-two, and provided, further that nothing

contained in this act shall apply to cases pending nor to the

violations of the law which shall have occurred prior to the

adoption of this act, but all such cases and violations shall

be prosecuted as if this act had not been passed and adopted.

Approved April 7th, 1892.