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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ers of Worcester county for the use of the said

public schools), and be committed to the county

jail of Worcester county until such fines and costs

of the same are paid.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That any person who

shall have been engaged for four continuous

months immediately before the said first day of

May in business as a pharmacist and druggist,

shall be entitled on and after said day to carry on

such a business under a new license similar to the

one under which he had been acting just prior to

File petition.

said day; provided he shall first file a petition

with and to the clerk of said court, setting forth

that he has been engaged for the time aforesaid

in the business of a pharmacist and druggist, and

praying for the issuance to him of a pharmacist

and druggist license; and the clerk shall forth-

with issue to such petitioner, upon his paying the

Clerk issue

usual charges therefor, and a fee of twenty-five

traders license

cents to the clerk, a traders license, and endorsed

thereon over his official signature the words

"Pharmacist and Druggist license;" but if any

other person shall desire to obtain from said clerk

a license to conduct the business of a pharmacist

and druggist, endorsed as aforesaid, after the first

day of May next, he shall first file with said clerk

a petition addressed to one of the judges of the

Circuit Court for said county, setting forth in

what district of said county he proposes to engage

in such business, that he is fitted by training and

experience to conduct the same, and that he is not

about engaging therein with a view to evade the

provisions of this act; which said petition to the

Accompanied

said judge shall be accompanied by a certificate

by certificate.

filed therewith of twenty-four free holders of said

district, that they know him to be well fitted by

training and experience to conduct such business,

and that from their knowledge of his character

they are satisfied that he will not abuse his license,

if granted, to evade the provisions of this act;

and upon such petition and certificate being filed,

Notice to be

the said clerk shall give ten days' notice, by one

published.

insertion in some newspaper published in said

county, of such petition, the cost of which notice,

together with all fees accrued under such petition,