JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE. GOVERNOR.

1827.

in which any spirituous or fermented liquor shall be sold or
bartered, in quantities less than a pint at any one time, with-
out first obtaining a license in the manner now provided by

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law: Provided nevertheless, That if the grand j urv of any coun-
ty court, or of the city court of Baltimore, shall signify to the
county court, or city court of Baltimore, as the case may be,
their opinion that a license ought not to be granted to
any individual or individuals named in the lists to be laid be-
fore them, under the provisions of this act, that the clerks of
said courts shall not be authorised to grant a license or li-
censes to any such individual or individuals, without the spe-
cial direction of the court.

If grand jury sig-
nify objection.—
clerk shall not is-
sue license

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That a license to open, set up
and keep an ordinary, tavern or inn, or a victualling house,
cookshop or oyster house, or any other place, at or in which
spirituous and fermented liquors may be sold or bartered, in
quantities less than a pint at any one time, shall be granted
by the clerk of any county court, or the clerk of Baltimore
city court, to any person or persons, body or bodies corporate
or politic, who shall produce and deliver such certificate as is
herein before required, and who shall at the time of applying

Clerk of court to

grant license.

for such license, pay therefor to suck clerk, the sum of twelve
dollars, for a license to keep a victualling house or cook shop,
or an oyster house, and eighteen dollars for every other li
cense required by this section, for the use of the state, whi h

$12 for victualing
house cook shop
or oyster house,
$18 other licenses

license shall particularly describe the place at or in which the
said person or persons, body or bodies corporate or politic,
may in virtue thereof, open, set up and keep such ordinary,
tavern, inn, victualling house, cook shop, or oyster house, and
may sell or barter spirituous and fermented liquor as afore-
said; and it shall authorise the same only at the place so des-

Prescribedd place.

cribed therein, from the day of its date, until the first day of
May next thereafter or until the same shall be supendedor
revoked, in the manner provided by law.

Time limited

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
sheriff of each county of this state, annually, in the month of
April, to make or cause to be made, an alphabetical list of the
Barnes of all the persons, or bodies corporate or politic, in
each election district of his county, and in the city of Balti-
more, in each ward of said city, who shall be be exercising or
pursuing any business, or be doing any act or thing, or shall
be in the use or occupation of any house or place, for any
purpose for which a license is made necessary by this act or
any existing law of this state, and to return such list or lists
on Monday preceding the last Saturday in said month, to the
clerk of his county court, or to the clerk of Baltimore city
court, as the case may require, and the sheriff of each countr
shall, within the first week of the month last before mention-

Sheriffs to return a
list annually of all
persons occupying
places for which
licens should be
taken on

ed, cause a written or printed notice to be set up, in at least
six public places, in each of the election districts and wards
in his county or city, cautioning all persons, and bodies cor-
porate or politic, whom it may concern, to obtain a license or
renew the same, according to the provisions of this net, before

Notices, authori-

ing persons to take
out license