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ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 687
run, one-twelfth of the annual charge for such license; and
all such licenses shall expire on the first day of May succeed-
ing their issue; on which day all licenses issued under this
section by the said Mayor and Aldermen shall expire.
(e) Any person, firm or corporation desiring a license to
sell beer, wines and other beverages under this section, in
the City of Annapolis, shall file with the said Mayor and
Aldermen an application setting forth the name, place and
class or kind of license he desires; and the Mayor and
Aldermen shall act upon said application at its next regular
or special meeting, and it shall be in the discretion of the
Mayor and Aldermen to grant or refuse to issue licenses,
and on granting the license by the said Mayor and Alder-
men, the Clerk shall issue the same; provided he complies
with the provisions of paragraph (d) of this section.
(d) No license shall be issued under this section until
the licensee shall have paid to the Treasurer and Collector
of the said city, the license fee provided for in this section;
and the license may be transferred or assigned to any
person or any premises other than the one to whom the
license was originally issued, on the approval and consent
of the said Mayor and Aldermen.
(e) Every person, firm or corporation in said city, re-
ceiving a license under this section, shall frame his license
under a glass, and place the same so that it shall at all
times be conspicuous and easily read, in the chief place
of making his sales; and no license issued in said city under
this section shall authorize sale by any person who shall
neglect this requirement.
(f) No licensee in said city, under this section, shall sell
or furnish to any person any beer, wine or other beverages
on the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday, except if the
licensee is a hotel-keeper, an incorporated social club, or a
person conducting a bona fide cafe or eating house, he may
supply such beverages to be drunk on the premises, to bona
fide guests; and any person violating this provision shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined a sum of not less than $50. 00 nor
more than $200. 00, or be imprisoned in jail for not less
than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or to be both
fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court.
(g) The money received by the Treasurer and Collector,
on account of license fees under this section, shall be ap-
plied to the general uses of said City of Annapolis.
(h) Any person who shall hereafter be convicted by the
Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, of selling beer,
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