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such, and who may keep a bar in connection with the
running of such hotel. This statement shall be verified by
the affidavit of the applicant or applicants made before
a justice of the peace or a notary public. If any false
statement be made in any part of said petition, the peti-
tioner or petitioners shall upon indictment for and conviction
thereof, be deemed guilty of perjury, and such license shall
be revoked, and he, she or they be subject to the penalties
provided by law for that crime.
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CHAP. 415.
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175 C. There shall be annexed to said petition a certificate
signed by at least six reputable citizens residing or doing busi-
ness in the neighborhood in which the petitioner or petitioners
applies or apply for a license to do business, stating the resi-
dence or place of business of each person, certifying that they
have been acquainted with the petitioner or petitioners for one
year preceding said application for said license, and that they
have good reason to believe and do believe that all the state-
ments contained in said petition are true, and that they there-
fore pray that the prayer of said petitioner be granted and the
license be issued as prayed for. If, after the notice provided
for in this Act, there be no remonstrance tiled with said clerk
against the issuing of any license, prayed for as aforesaid, said
clerk shall issue such license, upon said petitioner tiling with
said clerk a bond as hereinbefore provided, and paying to said
clerk for such license to do and carry on such business in
Allegany county the sum of sixty dollars, fifty dollars of
which shall be paid to the State as licenses are now paid, and
ten dollars shall be paid to the treasury of Allegany county
for county purposes; provided however, that if there be any
remonstrance against the issuing of such license to anyone
petitioning therefor, the said clerk shall not issue the same,
and the Circuit Court for Allegany'connty shall fix a day as
early as practicable, when petitions and remonstrances shall be
heard, and said Court shall, in its discretion, whenever in its
opinion the petitioner or petitioners is or are unfit persons to
be granted such license, or, in the discretion of the Court, the
place for which license is applied for is not a proper one with
reference to the location of any of the public school buildings
or churches of the county, or with reference to the public
peace of the neighborhood, or the character of its inhabitants,
direct said clerk not to issue the same; but if said Court shall
determine that such license shall be issued, then the clerk
shall issue the same ; provided, that no license under this Act
shall be issued to any applicant therefor until the license fee
hereinbefore provided for shall have been paid, and the bond
hereinbefore provided for shall have been given, and the bond
herein required shall have been tiled and approved.
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Certificate
signed by six
reputable
citizens
annexed to
said petition.
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