HENRY. LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

said applicant in connection with the sale of
spirituous or fermented liquors; and pro-
vided, the said applicant shall file with said
petition a written certificate signed by ten

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freeholders, resident citizens within the cor-
porate limits of the town in which said ap-
plicant desires to sell spirituous or fermented
liquors, (or of the election district wherein the
said applicant desires to sell, in case the appli-
cation is not made for a license to sell within
the corporate limits of a town), setting forth
their belief that the applicant for such license
will keep an orderly house and duly observe
the provisions of this act, and each person
signing said certificate shall make affidavit
before said Clerk, or before a Justice of the
Peace of said county, that he is the owner of
real estate in the election district wherein he
resides, of the assessed value of at least one
thousand dollars, an d that he has not, during the
current year, signed a certificate for any other
person applying for a license to sell spiritu-
ous or fermented liquors within said district ;
and if said applicant be a hotel-keeper, he
shall satisfy the said Clerk by his own oath, and,
by the oaths of two respectable and disinter-
ested witnesses, of their belief therein that he

Certificate.

has bona fide and without intending to evade
the spirit and meaning of this act, duly pro-
vided, and will maintain and keep for use at
least five or more chambers more than are
needed for the private or family purposes of
said hotel-keeper, to be used for the reception
of guests, or permanent or transient boarders,
and at least six beds with sufficient covering
therefor, with stabling for at least six horses;
all of said chambers and beds to be and re-
main on said premises on which spirituous or
fermented liquors is by this act licensed to be

Affidavit.

sold; and each and every applicant whether
a hotel-keeper or not, shall file in the office of
said Clerk a bond duly executed to the State
of Maryland, with at least two sureties, to be
approved by said Clerk, in the penal sum of
one thousand dollars, conditioned for the f aith-

Bond.