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CHAP. 571.
Repeal.
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seventeen of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Prince
George's County," sub-title "Liquor and intoxicating Drinks,"
and an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland amendatory
thereto, approved April eight, eighteen hundred and ninety,
be and the same are hereby repealed so far as they are appli-
cable to the districts of Bladensburg and Hyattsville in said
county, and thereupon re-enacted, so as to read as follows :
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Unlawful to
sell liquors,
etc., except
upon certal
terms.
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253. No spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters
or lager beer shall be sold in any election district of said
county except as provided for by section two hundred and
fifty-two, and also upon the following terms : That in the
districts of Hyattsville and Bladensburg in said county each
and every applicant, person, house, corporation, company or
association shall be recommended to said clerk by at least eight
freeholders of record, who shall go before some justice of the
peace of Prince George's county and make oath that they live
within one mile of the place at which euch business is to be car-
ried on, as a fit person to traffic in the article ; and provided that
no petitioner shall be counted by the clerk as having the right
to sign more than two petitions or applications to sell liquor in
said districts, and in no event shall any person sell euch article
on the Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday, nor to any
minor, and for violation of this section such person, natural
or artificial, shall forfeit and pay on conviction a fine of not
less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars and costs
of prosecution, or instead of euch fine shall be imprisoned in
the county jail for thirty days, or both fined and imprisoned,
in the discretion of the Court ; and upon the conviction the
license to the person convicted is hereby forfeit and forfeited,
and upon the second conviction of any offense under this
section the license to the place or premises is forfeited, and no
license shall be renewed for such place of business or premises
for the period of two years, and if there be an informer under
this section, he shall not have one-half of any fines imposed
for violation of this section, nor any part of any fines so
imposed, but the half which would otherwise go to the
informer shall go to the school fund of Prince George's
county ; provided, that nothing in this section shall be taken
as applying to the tenth district of said county, nor to any
other district of said county than the districts of Hyattsville
and Bladensburg, nor shall anything in this section be con-
strued to permit the granting of license for the sale of liquor
in the town corporation of Hyattsville.
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