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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Not necessary
to specify.

ceding sections hereof, it shall not be necessary
to specify the particular kind of liquor which
any person or persons, house, company, asso-
ciation or body corporate, bartered, sold or gave
away, or solicited or received orders for the
purchase of or kept deposited or had, with in-
tent to barter, sell or give away, or that the
same be bartered, sold or given away in viola-
tion of said provisions ; but it shall be sufficient
if the indictment sets forth that the traverser
or traversers bartered, sold or gave away, or
solicited or received orders for the purchase of,
or kept deposited or had, with intent to barter,
sell or give away spirituous or fermented
liquors or intoxicating drinks, or with intent
that the same be bartered, sold or given away
in violation of said provisions.
SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That if it shall

Take effect.

appear by the returns of said judges and cer-
tificate of said clerk that a majority of such
votes have been cast "For License," then, and
in that event, the following sections shall be
added to article twelve of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Harford county, under the sub-
title of "Sales of Spirituous or Fermented
Liquors," to take effect on the first day of
December, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
SEC. 148. No person in Harford county shall
obtain a license for the sale or barter of
spirituous or fermented liquors in any quantities

To whom li-
cense may be
issued.

whatever, except such as shall be qualified, as
hereinafter provided, and be a regular hotel
keeper ; and any person who may keep a house
for the reception of guests, or of permanent or
transient boarders containing at least three
chambers more than are needed for his family
purposes, and are used for the reception of
guests or boarders, containing therein for use
at all times at least four good beds, with
sufficient covering therefor, and having a stable
or stables sufficient for the accommodation of
six or more horses, shall be deemed a hotel
keeper within the meaning of this act.

Must file peti-
tion and give
bond.

SEC. 149. Any person desiring to take out a
license under this act shall file with the clerk
of the circuit court for said county a petition
in writing, signed by himself and at least five