1827

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 117

purchased of them during the months ol March, April and
May, and no longer, without license.

Clerk to issue li-

cense on receiving
therefor.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That a license to sell or barter
any of the goods, wares or merchandize hereinbefore men-
tioned, shall be granted by the clerk of each county court, to
any person or persons, body or bodies corporate or politic, re-
siding in his county, and by the clerk of Baltimore city court,
to any person or persons, body or bodies corporate or politic
residing in said city, who shall apply therefor, and pay to
such clerk the sum of twelve dollars, for the use of the state,
which license shall authorise the person or persons, body or
bodies corporate or politic, to whom the same shall be grant-

Which authorise
sales specified
place only.

ed, to sell or barter any of the said goods, wares or merchan-
dize, only at such house or other building or place, as shall
be therein particularly described, from the day of its date un-
til the first day of May next, thereafter, but such license shall
not authorise the person or persons, body or bodies corporate
or politic, to whom the same shall be granted, residing in the
several counties of this state, to sell or barter any spirituous

Liquors in small
quantities except-
ed.

or fermented liquor in quantities less than a pint at any one
time, nor shall such license authorise any person or persons,
body or bodies corporate or politic, to sell or barter spiritu-
ous or fermented liquor by retail, or in quantities less than
ten gallons, and not less, than a pint, within the city of Balti-
more, unless the person or persons, body or bodies corporate
or politic, obtaining such license, shall pay to the clerk of

$4 addition to sell
liquors in Balti-
more city—applied
to pay rail expen-
ses.

Baltimore city court, in addition to the twelve dollars afore-
said, the further sum of four dollars for every such license,
the said further sum to be applied to the payment of the ex-
penses of the gaol, of the said city and county of Baltimore,
so far as the same are chargeable to, and to be borne by the
city of Baltimore, and the licenses so to be issued as last

Said license to
state expressly

aforementioned, shall expressly state that the person or per-
sons, to whom the same shall be granted, is or are authorised
to retail spirituous and fermented liquors by retail, in quanti-
ties not less than a pint at any one time, within the city of
Baltimore, at a place which shall be particularly described in

Removals provid-
ed for

such license, as is herein before required in other cases: Pro-
vided, That any storekeeper or other retailer, except the keep-
ers of ordinaries, removing his, her or their store, from one
part of a county or city, to another part of the same county or
city, with a view to a permanent settlement, may continue to
tell under the license obtained for the first establishment: pro-
vided he, she or they shall go to the clerk of the county or city,
and have the mime or description of their new place of resi-
dence endorsed on the back of the license already obtained,
for which service they shall pay to the clerk, the sum of twelve

Distillers rules

and an half cents .Provided, That no distiller of spirituous li-
quors, shall at any one time sell less than a quart, without ob-
taining a license under the provisions of this act,

Taverns, victaal-

ing, houses, cook

shops, oyster hou-

ses and grog shops

prohibited without

having licenses

SEC. 3 And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for
any person or persons, body or bodies corporate or politic, to
open, set up, or keep any ordinary, tavern or inn, nor any vic-
tualing house, cook shop or oyster house, nor any place at or