ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 985

soever, except a brewer, brewing company, distiller, recti-
fier or compounder or bottler of or a wholesale dealer in
malted, brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating
liquors of any kind; provided also, that no license thus
assigned, hypothecated or pledged, nor duplicate license
thus issued, shall be used or disposed of by any transferee
or assignee, except for rehypothecation, cancellation or
redemption, without complying with the provisions of Sec-
tion 437 of this Article.

439. Any holder of a retail license under this sub-
title against whom no indictment or information is
pending for the violation of any provisions of this
sub-title, and who shall not have been convicted for
any such violation during the year for which his
license was issued, who shall cease to traffic in such
liquors during the term for which such license was issued
and who shall surrender such license to the presiding judge
or judges of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, and
who shall at the same time file with the said judge or
judges a petition in such general form as the said judge
or judges may prescribe, duly sworn to before a notary
public or justice of the peace, asking to have the license
marked "Cancelled, " shall be entitled to have the amount
paid for such license refunded pro rata for the unex-
pired portion of the term for which such license was
granted, less ten dollars; provided that no refund shall be
allowed or paid upon a surrender of such license unless
the same shall have at least one full calendar month yet
to run. And upon the surrender of said license and the
filing of said petition, the said judge or judges shall there-
upon compute the amount of refund then due on said
license for the unexpired term thereof, less ten dollars,
and shall execute duplicate vouchers therefor, showing the
name of the person to whom the original license was issued,
the number of said license, the date when issued, the
amount paid therefor and the date when surrendered for
cancellation, together with the amount of refund due there-
on at such date as computed by said judge or judges, and
a warrant to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore
County, directing him to pay said refund as set forth in
said vouchers to the holder of the license so entitled, and
one of said vouchers the said judge or judges shall deliver
to the person entitled thereto, together with said warrant
to the said clerk, and the other of said vouchers said judge
or judges shall immediately transmit, together with the
surrendered license, to the said clerk; and the said clerk,