FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

shall expire on the first day of May next succeeding their
issue. The fee for such license shall be thirty-six dollars, one-

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half of which shall by the said clerk be paid into the State
treasury, and the other half thereof, by said clerk, be paid to
the County Commissioners of said county, to be by the said
County Commissioners appropriated to the road fund of said
county; provided, however, that if the County Commissioners,
at any time after the passage of this act, should issue and sell
any bonds of the county, for county purposes, that the said
one-half of the license fee herein provided to be paid to them
shall be used, first, in the payment of the interest on such
bonds, and secondly, as to any balance, for the purposes of
any sinking fund created for the payment of such bonds; and
provided further, that in case the stock of liquors kept on
hand by any licensee under this act shall exceed, on the aver-
age, the sum of five hundred dollars, that the said licensee
shall pay the additional sum of thirty-five dollars, to be by the
said clerk of the Circuit Court paid into the State treasury.
All licenses taken out for a shorter period than one year shall
pay one-twelfth of the aforesaid amount of thirty-six dollars
for each month that said license has to run.

79 B. No person who shall obtain such a license as is herein

Cost of
license.

provided, shall sell any liquor of any kind on any Sunday or
election day, nor to any minor, except upon the written order
of the parent or guardian of such minor, nor shall he permit
any card playing, throwing of dice or gambling of any kind in
his or their store or bar-room. Any violation of any of the
foregoing provisions shall subject the person so violating the
same, on conviction, to a fine of not less than twenty dollars
nor more than fifty dollars; and the Circuit Court for St.
Mary's county, upon suggestion by the grand jury, may sup-
press the license of any party, both as to the person and the
place licensed, and thereafter no license shall be issued to such
person or place for the period of one year.

When liquor
not to be
sold.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
on and from the first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-
four.

Approved February 28th, 1894.

Effective.