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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of this State to issue any license for the sale of

spirituous or fermented liquors, or lager beer,

Not lawful fir
clerks to Issue

to any person or body politic in this State, unless
such person or body politic shall have been recom-

license.

mended to the clerks by the grand jury, which shall

have been in session at the term next preceding the

first day of May in each and every year in the county

where the applicants for such license shall reside ;

provided, however, that this act, or any of its pro-

Where not to

visions, shall.not apply to Baltimore city, Frederick,

apply.

Baltimore, Prince George, Alleghany, Somerset,

Carroll, Howard, Washington, Wicomico, St. Mary's,

Harford, Dorchester, Cecil, Anne Arundel and

Worcester counties; and provided, nevertheless, that

the clerk of the Circuit Court for Charles county is

hereby authorized and empowered to issue license

for one year from the first day of May, eighteen

hundred and eighty, for the sale of spirituous or

fermented liquors or lager beer in said county to any

persons applying for the same, who shall file with

the said clerk with said application a recommenda-

tion signed by a majority of those who constituted

the grand jury at the November term, eighteen

hundred and seventy-nine, of said court, recom-

mending the granting of said license, with an affi-

davit of the applicants attached thereto, that the

said signatures to said recommendation are true and

genuine; provided, however, that said person apply-

Proviso.

ing for said license shall have been engaged in the

sale of such liquors at the time of the November

term of said court; and provided, also, that he shall

not have been refused such license by said grand

jury at said November term of court, eighteen hun-

dred and seventy-nine.

Approved May 3, 1882.