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LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 503
of Baltimore City who shall give security for the cost of prose-
cution, that any license has been corruptly or knowingly issued
by said Board to any person who has not complied with the pro-
visions of this sub-division of this Article, it shall be the duty
of the State's Attorney to file in the Criminal Court of Balti-
more City an information against said Board and against said
licensee, and if it shall be found that such license was improp-
erly issued, said license shall be revoked, and the members of
said Board who voted in favor of issuing said license shall in
addition to the other penalties for malfeasance in office be
removed from said office.
687. For the purpose of all hearings and inquiries which
the Board of Liquor License Commissioners are authorized to
have and make, they are hereby authorized to issue summons
for witnesses and administer to them oaths or affirmations, and
all summons so issued shall be served by the police force of the
City of Baltimore. If any witness so summoned shall refuse or
neglect to attend, or attending, refuse to testify, the said Board
shall report the facts to the Superior Court of Baltimore City,
which is hereby authorized and directed to proceed by attach-
ment against said witnesses in all respects as if said neglect or
refusal had been by witnesses summoned to appear in said court
in cases pending before it.
688. Distillers, brewers and wholesale dealers or jobbers
shall be allowed to sell spirituous and fermented liquors in quan-
tities or packages not less than one pint each, and in no case to
be drunk on the premises; distillers and brewers shall require no
license; wholesale dealers and jobbers shall be entitled to re-
ceive a license as such, to sell as above stated and not other-
wise, upon applying directly to the Clerk of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, and paying to him the sum of two hundred and
fifty dollars a year therefor; but any person, copartnership or
corporation (other than brewers, who, as hereinbefore stated,
require no license), may be licensed to conduct a bottling busi-
ness by selling fermented liquors only, and in quantities or
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