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license commissioners by five respectable freeholders of
record living within one mile of the place where said busi-
ness is to be carried on as fit persons to traffic in the article.
Said recommendation shall be signed by said freeholders,
and in the event that any of the said freeholders cannot
write the same may be signed by him or her by his or her
mark, duly attested; said board, upon receiving such appli-
cation, shall publish the name or names of the applicant or
applicants in some newspaper published in said county for
at least one week, giving notice of said application and the
place where the said business is intended to be carried on
or conducted, and at the expiration of said stipulated time
for said notice to be published said board shall take up said
application and act thereon at their next meeting; and in no
event shall any person sell such liquors on the Sabbath day,
commonly called Sunday, under a penalty on conviction of
not less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars and
costs of prosecution, or instead of such fine shall be impris-
oned in the county jail for a period not exceeding sixty days,
or be. both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court ;
in case of any violation of any of the provisions of this sub-
title of Article-the said board of liquor license commissioners
shall have power to summon witnesses through the sheriff
and hear charges against the supposed offender, who shall
have due notice of the time and place of hearing, and who
may, if he so desires, be represented by counsel; and at the
hearing, if the charges should be sustained to the satisfaction
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Recommended
by five
respectable
freeholders.
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of said board, then and in that event said board in its dis-
cretion may revoke the license of the offender, and no part
of the license fee shall be returned to such offender.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 2, 1906:
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May revoke
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