WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1893

In the Counties of Dorchester and Wicomico, the decision of
the Boards of License Commissioners for said counties, in ap-
proving, suspending, revoking or restricting or refusing to ap-
prove, suspend, revoke or restrict any license, shall be subject
to appeal to the State License Bureau by the applicant for any
license, the licensee, or not less than ten (10) citizens, voters
and real estate owners residing in the precinct or voting district
in which the place of business is located or proposed to be
located. Upon the filing of any such appeal, all papers and testi-
mony produced before the Board of License Commissioners
shall be forwarded to the State License Bureau within thirty
(30) days thereof upon the payment by the appellant or
appellants, of all costs incident to the hearing before the
Board of License Commissioners. Every such appeal shall be
heard by the State License Bureau de novo; but said Bureau
shall consider all the papers and testimony produced before
the said Boards. The action of the Board shall be final and
effective at once, provided, however, that any party aggrieved
by such action of the Board as herein provided, may within
ten (10) days from the date of the decision of the Board,
appeal from the action of the Board to the State License
Bureau upon full payment of all costs of the proceedings as
hereinbefore provided; the noting of such appeal and pay-
ment of said costs shall stay the order of the Board pending
the determination of the appeal. It shall be the duty of
the State License Bureau to hear and determine all such
appeals within thirty (30) days from the date of the receipt
of the papers and testimony from the Board originally hear-
ing the application, complaint or charges, and if the decision
appealed from is reversed, the costs paid by the appellants
shall be recoverable by the appellants from the appellees, in
a civil action, and failure of the Bureau to determine the
appeal within a period of thirty (30) days, after the record
has been filed as above provided, shall be considered an auto-
matic affirmance of the local Board's decision unless the time
has been extended by the Bureau for a good cause shown.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1947.

Approved April 25, 1947.

CHAPTER 775.
(House Bill 508)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
381 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George's