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Repeal.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 320 of Article 22, of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Washington County," sub-title "Liquor and
Intoxicating Drinks," be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows :
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Conditions
under which
liquors may
be sold.
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320. It shall not be lawful for any person to sell spirituous,
fermented or intoxicating liquors in Washington county, until
he shall comply with the following conditions: First. The
person proposing to sell any liquors as aforesaid in said county,
shall file with the clerk of the Circuit Court for Washington
county, a written application for a license signed by himself
and sworn to before the said clerk or some other person author-
ized to administer an oath, his full name, age and place of
residence, the exact locality designated with particularity,
where the proposed place of sale is situated; the name of the
owner or lessor of the house; whether said liquors are to be
sold in quantities less or more than a pint; whether ale and
beer alone are to be sold, or ale and beer with other liquors; if
said liquors are to be sold in quantities less than a pint; that
he will keep a quiet and orderly house; that he will not allow
a person manifestly intoxicated, to drink any such liquors in
the house or on the premises while in such state of intoxication ;
that he will not knowingly sell or allow to be sold in the said
house or on the said premises, any such liquors on Sunday or
on election days, or to minors at any time, or allow a minor to
drink in said house or on said premises; that he will not keep
or permit to be kept a bawdy house in the said house or on the
said premises; or the gathering together in or the visitation to
said house or premises of women for lewd or immoral pur-
poses. Second. If the applicant shall reside in the county,
outside of Hagerstown, in said county, he shall, at the same
time, file with the said clerk a writing signed by at least twelve
respectable freeholders, residing in the vicinity where the pro-
posed place of sale is situated; and if the applicant shall reside
in Hagerstown, he shall file a petition similarly signed by twelve
respectable freeholders residing in Hagerstown, and in the elec-
tion district in which is located the proposed place of sale, stat-
ing that they personally know the applicant and believe bis state-
ment filed as above to be true; that he will faithfully observe
the matter therein sworn to, and recommend that a license be
issued to such applicant; but no signer of such statement and
recommendation shall be permitted to sign more than three such
statements or applications; and the clerk of the Circuit Court is
hereby prohibited from issuing a license to any applicant whose
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