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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Conditions
upon when
intoxicating
liquors may
be sold.

SEC. 653 A. No person shall offer for sale or keep for sale in
the city of Baltimore any intoxicating liquors, except as here-
inafter provided; but this shall not apply to sales made by a
person under a provision of law requiring him to sell personal
property, nor to sales of liquors by wholesale, nor to sales by
the maker, brewer or distiller thereof, nor to sales by bottlers
of fermented liquors, not to be drunk on the premises; save
and except as hereinafter specially provided in reference to
wholesale dealers and jobbers, brewers, distillers and bottlers,
in section 653 v, wherein the rights and duties of said classes
of persons are set forth and defined. Wherever the term
intoxicating liquors is used in this act, it shall be deemed to
include whiskey, brandy, rum, gin, wine, ale, beer and all other

Meaning of
term "in-
toxicating
liquors."

fermented and distilled, liquors, and every mixture of liquors
which shall contain more than two per cent, by weight of
alcohol, and every mixture of liquors which shall contain less
than two per cent, of alcohol if the same shall be intoxicating.
Nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the sale of
any intoxicating liquor or any admixture thereof in any part of
said city where such sale now is or shall hereafter be pro-
hibited by special law.

Licenses, by
whom issued

SEC. 653 E. No licenses to sell intoxicating liquors, other than
by wholesale traders, distillers, brewers, rectifiers and bottlers
of fermented liquors, shall be granted in the city of Baltimore
except by said board, and only to citizens of the United States
of temperate habits and good moral character, who have com-
plied with the requisites of this act.

Cost of

license

SEC. 653 L. If after the notice and hearing provided for in
this act, the said board should decide to grant the license
' prayed for, they shall notify the applicant of such decision in
writing, and the applicant shall thereupon pay to the clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas the sum of money specified
below, to wit : For a hotel or restaurant, or other place in
which diptilled liquors or any admixture of distilled liquors ,
containing more than fifteen per cent, of alcohol, or fermented
liquors containing less than fifteen per cent, of alcohol, are
sold by retail, by the drink, or in quantities or packages not
exceeding five gallons of any spirituous or fermented liquor
except lager beer, and not exceeding one keg of eight gallons
or less of lager beer, to be drunk on the premises or not, as
desired by the purchaser, the sum of two hundred and fifty
dollars; and the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas shall
thereupon issue to applicants the license authorized to be issued