LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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ate, and Dennis E. Reardon, agent for John F. Betz and Son,
did pay to the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, respect-
ively, the. sum of two hundred and fifty dollars each for
licenses as wholesale liquor dealers, when in fact they were not
suchwholesale liquor dealers, but merely direct agents of man-
ufacturers ; and

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WHEREAS, The aforesaid persons did, on the first day of
May, 1891, each respectively pay to the said clerk a like sum
of two hundred and fifty dollars for the like respective licenses;
and

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WHEREAS, The aforesaid persons did, on the second day of
May, 1892, each respectively pay to the said clerk a like sum
of two hundred and fifty dollars for the like respective licen-
ses ; and

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WHEREAS, The said persons did, on the first day of May,
1893, each respectively pay to the said clerk a like sum of
two hundred and fifty dollars for the like respective licenses ;
and

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WHEREAS, The aforesaid persons did, on the first day of
May, 1884, each respectively pay to the said clerk, a like sum
of two hundred and fifty dollars for the like respective licenses;
and

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WHEREAS, The said Dennis E. Reardon did on the first day
of May, 1895, pay to the said clerk the sum of two hundred
and fifty dollars for a wholesale liquor license ; and
WHEREAS, The said clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of

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Baltimore city did decline, on the first day of May 1S95, to.
receive from the said C. E. Cronin the sum of two hundred
and fifty dollars for wholesale liquor licenses, and did decline,
on the first day of May, 1896, to receive from said Dennis E.
Reardon the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for whole-
sale liquor license, but did demand and receive from the said
Cronin and Reardon, respectively, the sum of two hundred and
fifty dollars each for saloon license (in addition to the sums for
wholesale licenses as above set forth) for each year from May
1st, 1890, to May 1st, 1897, which said saloon license is the
only one which the said Cronin should have been required to
procure in the years 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1894, and
which said saloon license is the only one which the said Rear-
don should have been required to procure in the years 1890,
1891, 1892, 1893, 1894 and 1895;
WHEREAS, The said sums of two thousand seven hundred
and fifty dollars were paid into the State Treasury by the clerk

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