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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

fines, penalties and costs which may be imposed upon such
applicant for the violation of this or any laws relating to or
regulating or providing for the sale of liquors aforesaid, and
no licensee under this sub-title of this article shall be per-
mitted to open his place or sell any liquors therein between the
hours of twelve o'clock midnight and five o'clock A. M. All
applications must be filed with the clerk of the Circuit Court
for licenses to sell liquors under the provisions of these sections
fifteen days prior to May first, and protests, if any, against the
issuing of a license to an applicant must be filed in writing five
days before May first, by not less than four respectable free-
holders, residing within the limits required by the applicant for
obtaining signers, the application and protest to be presented
by the clerk to the judge of the Circuit Court, who shall hear
and determine as to whether the license applied for shall be
issued or not, and shall place the costs of hearing as he may
deem equitable and just. The judge of the court shall also
have discretion as to issuing or of suppressing such licenses
where the applicants have been convicted of or satisfactory evi-
dence shown that they are conducting disreputable or disorderly
houses. Applicants for license after May first, must file apply
cation therefor fifteen days prior to the month in which such
licenses are to begin, subject to all the restrictions of this sec-
tion as to license to be taken out on May first.
821. In addition to the sum now required by law for a

Extra fee
allowed
clerk.

license to sell such liquors in quantities less than a quart, the
clerk shall demand and receive before issuing such license from
the person applying for the same the sum of fifty dollars, and
also fifty cents as a fee to the clerk, in addition to that now
allowed by law. If any person who shall take out an ordinary
license or any other license to sell spirituous or fermented
liquors or lager beer shall knowingly sell, barter or give any
spirituous or fermented liquors or lager beer to any person who
is a minor or under the age of twenty-one years, or shall, having
such license, knowingly allow upon the premises occupied by
him any such person who is a minor or under the age of
twenty-one years, to drink any such spirituous or fermented
liquors or lager beer, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction, shall pay a fine of not less than fifty dollars
nor more than two hundred dollars, together with the costs of
prosecution, and upon failure to pay the same shall be com-
mitted to jail until such fine and costs are paid, or for forty
days, whichever shall first occur ; and for any second offence it
shall be the duty of the court before whom such person shall
be convicted to impose a similar fine, and the court shall have