ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 59

	Chapter 57. AN ACT to repeal section four of chapter two hundred and seventy of the acts of the Gen- eral Assembly of Maryland passed at the January session of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled "An act regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors in Wicomico county," and to re-enact the same with amendments. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
	sembly of Maryland, That section four of chapter two hundred and seventy of the acts of the Gen- eral Assembly of Maryland passed at the Janu- ary session of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled " An act regulating the sale of intoxi- cating liquors in Wicomico county," be and'the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows : SECTION FOUR. That on the day appointed as aforesaid, after duly examining and considering the application and certificate and recommenda-	Repealed and re-enacted.
	tion accompanying the same, the clerk may or may not, at his discretion, approve such appli- cation, and in order to satisfy himself fully of the propriety of approving the same, he shall receive remonstrances and hear evidence and arguments, for and against the same, under such rules as he may think proper ; and the said clerk may establish general rules for that pur- pose. If any application shall be approved, as herein provided, the clerk shall endorse the word "approved" thereon, and sign the same, with the date of such approval. If not approved the said clerk shall endorse thereon "not ap- proved," and sign the same ; and it shall be the	Clerk may or may not ap- prove.
	duty of the clerk to issue the proper license to any person or persons whose application he may so approve, and to no other or others, to expire on the first day of May next succeeding, except to those who make application before the first day of May, in which case the license shall run for a whole year, commencing with the first day of May ; and the decision of the clerk shall be	When to issue license.