504 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

packages not less than twelve pint bottles, by applying directly
to the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, and paying him the
sum of forty dollars a year therefor; any person required by this
section to take out a license, who shall sell or offer for sale any
intoxicating liquor without having first procured such license,
and any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this
section, as to the manner or quantity in which he shall sell
or offer for sale such liquors, whether he shall be required to
take out a license or not, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less
than two hundred and fifty dollars nor more than five hundred
dollars, in the discretion of the court; no license unde» this
section shall be issued for a longer period than one year; if
issued for a shorter period, the licensee shall pay for every
month for which his license is to run, one-twelfth of the annual
charge for such license, and all such licenses shall expire on the
first day of May succeeding their issue; the whole of the money
received by the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the
licenses aforesaid, shall be paid over quarterly by said Clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas to the State as now provided by
law, and when so paid over the Comptroller of the Treasury
shall draw his warrant upon the Treasurer in favor of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for three-fourths thereof,
to be applied to the general use of said City.

689. No hotel keeper, or ordinary keeper, shall receive a
license to sell intoxicating liquors until he shall have first paid
for and received a license to keep a hotel or ordinary, as pro-
vided by law.

690. Any holder of a license to sell intoxicating liquors at
retail, by the drink or otherwise, may be permitted by said
Board, in their discretion, to sell or assign said license to an-
other person, to be used at the same or another place of busi-
ness, or to transfer his said license to another place of business,
provided, that the fitness and propriety of said intended pur-
chaser or assignee, and of said intended new place of business,
shall be first approved by said Board, upon due application
therefor, recommendation by qualified voters, advertisement of
same in newspapers, etc., as required in case of an original ap-
plication for such license. Such sale or assignment or transfer,