LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4, 1896.

CHAPTER 411.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 134. 135, 136 and 137 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Worcester County,"
sub-title "Liquor and Intoxicating Drinks," and -to re-enact
the same with amendments.

Effective.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sections 134, 135, 136 and 137 of the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws of Maryland, title ''Worcester County," sub-title
"Liquor and Intoxicating Drinks," be, and the same are hereby
repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

134. Any person in said county who may keep a house for
the reception of guests or of permanent or transient boarders
containing at least five chambers more than are needed for his

Kepeal.

family purposes and which said five or more chambers are used
for the reception of guests or transient, boarders, containing
therein for use at all times, at least eight good beds, with suffi-
cient covering therefor, and having a stable sufficient for the
accommodations of five or more horses, shall be deemed and con-
sidered to be a hotel keeper within the meaning of the sub-title
of this act, provided that such house shall be bona fide hotel
for the reception of guests or permanent or transient boarders
at all times, and kept and generally recognized, as such.

Who deemed
a hotel
keeper.

135. Any such hotel keeper in said county may file his peti-
tion to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county, setting
forth therein that he wishes to sell or barter intoxicating, spir-
ituous, or fermented liquors: provided, he shall file with said
petition a written certificate signed by twelve free holders, res-
ident citizens of the school district in which said applicant
desires to sell intoxicating liquor, setting forth their belief that
the applicant for such license will keep an orderly house, and
duly observe the provisions of this sub-title of this article, veri-
fied by the affidavit of said applicant and by the affidavit of
two respectable and disinterested witnesses, of their belief
therein, that he has bona fide and without intending to evade
the spirit and meaning of this sub-title of this article duly
provided and will maintain and keep for use, at least eight good

Application
for license.