LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

license for a whole year, and in proportion for any part of a
year; and upon the issuing of the license the clerk shall pay
over said Bums so deposited with him to the Board of County
School Commissioners, for the use of the public schools of said
county, and the applicant shall pay to the cleric as his fee the
further sum of one dollar, and in case of a contest he shall
pay him two dollars.

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Fourth. The said application and certificate of recommen-
dation shall be tiled with the said County Commissioners or
their clerk, at least twenty days before the granting of the
license, and the description and location of the premises, with
the names of the applicant, shall be published by the said
clerk in two newspapers of the said county, at least once, not
more than thirty nor less than fifteen days before the time of
granting said license.

When appli-
cation and
certificate
to be filed.

Fifth. On the day appointed by the said County Commis-
sioners, and before any license shall be issued, the applicant
shall make oath, in due form of law, to be administered by any
one of the County Commissioners, or by their clerk, that his
application and his certificate of recommendation were read
by or to each signer; and that the signatures are in the propel
handwriting of each, or if signed by a mark, that such person
could not write; and shall further make oath in like form,
that he will not violate or permit to be violated by any of his
employees, servants or agents, directly or indirectly, any of the
provisions of the law regulating the sale of liquors; provided,
that no license shall be issued unless a majority of all the
members of said board shall vote in favor of issuing such
license.

Oath of appli-
cant.

62. On the day appointed as aforesaid, after duly examining
and considering the application, and certificate of recommenda-
tion accompanying the same, the said County Commissioners
may or not, in their discretion, approve such application, and
in order to satisfy themselves of the propriety of approving
the same, the said County Commissioners shall receive remon-
strances, summon witnesses and hear evidence and arguments
for and against the same; and if under all the circumstances
of the case, the said commissioners shall deem it improper to
approve said application, then it shall be the duty of the said
commissioners to refuse the license applied for; if any appli-
cation shall be approved by a majority of the members of the
said Board of County Commissioners, then those approving
the same shall endorse thereon the word "approved," and shall
sign the same with their proper signatures, with the date of

Approval or
disapproval
of applica-
tion.