WM, T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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shall, before such publication, be paid by said peti-

tioner; and if within said ten days no objections

shall be filed to the issuance of such license, the

said clerk shall at once issue the same, endorsed

as aforesaid, upon the petitioner paying the usual

license charges therefor; but if within the said

ten days any objection is filed, either to the fitness

of such petitioner, by experience and training, to

conduct such business, or to his character, as a man

fit to be trusted to conduct the same, the clerk

shall forthwith lodge all the papers in said case

Lodge papers

with the judge to whom the petition is directed,

with judge.

or with some other judge of the circuit, if he, the

judge addressed, from any cause cannot act, who

shall appoint an early day for the hearing of the

case, and shall direct the clerk to issue subpoenas

for such witnesses as either petitioner or objector

may desire, and shall hear and determine the case

as to him shall seem right, and shall award to the

successful party such costs in the case as may have

arisen since the publication of notice as aforesaid,

and the clerk shall issue or withhold license

according to the order of the judge; every peti-

tion filed under this section shall be verified by

Verified by

the oath of the petitioner, taken before said clerk,

oath.

and certified by him on said petition, or on a paper

annexed thereto; and any false swearing as to any

matters required herein to be set forth in any

such petition shall be held to be perjury; but

such license issued and endorsed as aforesaid shall

have no effect to restrain the person licensed in

the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise which

he could heretofore have sold under such a traders'

license, except the liquors mentioned in the third

section of this act; and if any one who has

obtained a license as herein directed shall sell any

such liquor or liquors, except as by this act he is

allowed, he shall, upon conviction, be subject to

the punishment or punishments inflicted by the

Punishments

inflicted.

fourth section of this act, and in addition thereto,

for the second offence, his license shall be by the

court declared to be void.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That any one desir-

ing to obtain a license as a pharmacist and drug-

gist, such as is provided for in the last preceding