JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That sections 98 C and 98 D, 98 E of Article 14 of
the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Howard County," sub-
title "Liquors and Intoxicating Drinks," be and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments and that a
new section be and the same is hereby added to said Article
and to be designated as section 98 E 1, and to read as follows :

' CHAP. 849.

Kepeal
and re-enact.

98 C. There shall be annexed to said application a certificate
signed by at least five respectable freeholders, bona fide
residents and registered voters of Ellicott City affected by
the provisions of this sub-title, and which the persons certify-
ing shall state that they recommended the applicant as a suit-
able person to whom such license shall be issued, and no one
person shall endorse more than one such application.

Recommen-
dation
for license.

98 D. Upon said application and certificate being filed with
the clerk of the Circuit Court for Howard county, he shall
issue to said applicant a license for the period of twelve
months from the first of May in each year upon receiving
from such applicant the sum of five hundred dollars therefor
for one year, and ratably the same amount for any fraction oi
a year; the said annual license to begin and end on the first day
of May in each year; but no license shall be granted where
groceries, merchandise or any other goods are to be sold upon
the same premises.

License
issued.

98 E. The clerk of the Circuit Court shall, out of the moneys
so received, pay over quarterly to the Treasurer of the State,
the same sum as is now charged by the State for such license,
to wit., the sum of fifty dollars for each license, and the
balance shall be paid to the Mayor and City Council of Elli-
cott City ; the said sums so received to be used for the fiscal
purposes of the town of Ellicott City with regard to the
location within the two counties in respect to the amount
so respectively received from the licenses of each county or
city within.

License fees
to be paid
to Treasurer
of the State.

98 E 1. All gambling or playing of cards, crap, dice, whether
for profit, drinks, cigars, cigarettes or tobacco, or the keeping
or permitting to be used any gambling device, slot machine
or any music box or boxes or music of any kind, or other
gambling machines, is hereby strictly prohibited under a
penalty of fifty dollars and cost, in each case of trial and
conviction before a justice of the peace, who shall have exclu-
sive and final jurisdiction therein ; and all saloons shall be
closed from the hours of 12 o'clock P. M. to 5 o'clock A. M.,
under the same penalties as are in this section provided, and
no minors or loiters shall be allowed in said premises, under
similar penalties. In the event of a second conviction, the

Gambling,
card playing,
etc..
prohibited.