LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

less time, which shall be the amount paid for the use of the
town of Laurel before any license shall be applied for to the
clerk of the Circuit Court under the provisions of this Act,
the said clerk shall issue to said applicant, if all the conditions
of this Act appear to have been complied with, a license for a
period not longer than twelve months, upon receiving from
said applicant the following sum or license fee, viz: If the
license be for twelve months and to sell spirituous or fermented
liquors, the sum of one hundred dollars, for the use of the
County Commissioners of said county for public roads ; if
issued for a shorter period, the licensee shall pay for every
month or fractional part of a month for which his, her, their
or its license are to run, one twelfth of the annual charge for
such license in addition to the amount required to be paid to
the State of Maryland, and all such licenses shall expire at the
expiration of the time designated, and no license so granted
shall be transferable to any other person or persons or to con-
duct the said business at or in any other house, messuage or
tenement, without the transferee complying with all the pro-
visions of this Act, as though the transferee was an original
applicant.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That every person or persons,
house, corporation, company or association receiving a license

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under the provisions of this Act, shall frame his, her, their or
its license under a glass, and place the same so that it shall at
all times be conspicuous and easily read in his, her, their or its
chief place of making his, her or their sales, and no license
issued under tht provisions of this Act, shall authorize sales
by any person or persons, house, corporation, company or asso-
ciation, who shall neglect this requirement.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the license year shall begin

License to be
framed.

on the first day of May, A. D., eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight, and end with the third day of April, A. D. eighteen
hundred and ninety-nine, and begin on the first day of May of
each year thereafter, and end with the thirtieth day of April
each year thereafter.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That no person or persons, house,
corporation, company or association, who shall obtain a license

Date of
license.

under the provisions of this Act, shall sell or furnish intoxicat-
ing, spirituous or fermented liquors of any kind, at any time
to a minor, either for his or her own use, or for the use of any
other person, or to a drunkard, or to any one then under the
influence of liquor, or at any place within two hundred feet

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Unlawful to
sell or fur-
nish intoxi-
cating
liquors.