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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 76.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
79 A of Article 19, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
"St. Mary's County," sub title " Spirituous and Fermented
Liquors," as said section was enacted by Chapter 40 of the
Acts, of 1894.

Repeal.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 79 A, Article 19. of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "St. Mary's County," sub- title "Spirituous and
Fermented Liquors," as said section was enacted by chapter
40 of the Acts of 1894, be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read, as follows :

Licenses to
sell intoxi-
cating
liquors.

79 A. Upon application of any citizen of St. Mary's county,
the payment of the fee hereinafter provided, the clerk of the
Circuit Court for St. Mary's county shall issue to the applicant
a license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors or lager beer in
any quantity from one drink up to four gallons; provided,
that no person selling liquors under a decree or provisions of law,
or the execution of a judgment of a court of competent jurisdic-
tion nor sales in unbroken packages by the maker thereof of cider
or native wines shall be required to take out a license; and all
licenses issued hereunder shall expire on the first day of May
next succeeding their issue. The fee for such license shall be
thirty-six dollars, one-half of which shall, by the said clerk, be
paid into the State Treasury, and the other half thereof, by the
said clerk, (less a percentage of two per cent, and no more,)
shall be paid monthly to the County Commissioners of said
county, to be by them appropriated to the road fund of said
county; provided, however, that if the County Commissioners
at any time after the passage of this act, should issue and sell
any bonds of the county for county purposes, then, and in that
event, the said license fee so paid to them shall be used, first,
in payment of the interest on such bonds; and secondly, as to
any balance, for the purposes of any sinking fund created for
the payment of such bonds; and provided further, that in case
the stock of liquors kept on hand by any licensee under this
act shall, on the average, exceed five hundred dollars, then the
said licensee shall pay the additional sum of thirty-five dollars
to be by said clerk of the Circuit Court paid into the State
Treasury. All licenses taken out for a shorter period than one
year, shall pay one-twelfth of the aforesaid amount of thirty-
six dollars for each month that said license has to run.