292 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 169

ment, first obtain from the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Gar-
rett County, Maryland, a license or permit therefor, for which
the said Clerk shall charge a fee of fifty dollars ($50. 00) per
annum; except that in the case of restaurants or other places
of business maintaining a dance floor on which not more than
three couples are permitted to dance at any one time and for
which no orchestra is provided the fee for said license shall be
Ten Dollars ($10. 00) per annum; provided, however, that no
dance shall be held on Sunday. The Clerk of the Court shall
pay all receipts from said licenses to the County Treasurer for
the use of Garrett County. Every license issued hereunder
shall be dated as of the date of issue and shall expire at the
end of the, 30th day of April next after its issuance; and when,
issued at any time after the beginning of the license year the
fee therefor shall be at the rate of one-twelfth of the full
license fee for each month or part of a month between the
date of issue and the date of expiration.

Before the license shall be granted, the applicant shall file
with the Clerk of the Court a statement, duly executed and
acknowledged by the owner of the premises in which the dance,
amusement or entertainment is to be conducted, authorizing
the County Commissioners or any Peace Officer of Garrett
County to inspect and search, without warrant, the premises
upon which the said dance, amusement or entertainment is
being conducted, and any and all parts of the building in which
the same is being conducted, during the hours in which the
dance, amusement or entertainment is being given.

Any person or corporation who shall violate the provisions
hereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con-
viction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than
twenty-five dollars ($25. 00) nor more than one hundred dollars
($100. 00), and in default of the payment thereof shall be
sentenced to the county jail for a period of not less than sixty
(60) days or more than six (6) months; provided, however,
that nothing in this section shall apply to any such entertain-
ment given or held for religious, educational or fraternal
organizations, or Volunteer Fire Department, giving or spon-
soring any of the forms of amusement or entertainment men-
tioned herein.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date
of its passage.

Approved April 26, 1937.