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the State of Maryland, shall have any interest in the busi-
ness for which license hereunder is applied for; twelfth, a
statement of all persons interested or to be interested in the
business; thirteenth, that the said applicant has not had a
liquor license suppressed in Allegany county within three years
of the date of the application, nor is any person interested in
the proposed business whose license has been suppressed. This
statement shall be verified by the affidavit of the applicant or
applicants made before a justice of the peace, a notary public
or clerk of the Circuit Court. If any false statement be made
in any part of said petition, the petitioner or petitioners shall,
upon indictment for and conviction thereof, be deemed guilty
of perjury and such license be revoked, and he, she or they be
subject to the penalties provided by law for that crime; pro-
vided, however, that paragraphs 9 and 11 provided for in this
section shall not apply to licenses to sell spirituous or fer-
mented liquors by retailers under article 56, sections 55 to 66,
inclusive.

175c. There shall be annexed to said petition a certificate
signed by at least six reputable citizens residing or doing busi-
ness in the neighborhood in which the petitioner or petitioners
apply or applies for a license to do business, stating the full
name, residence or place of business of each person certifying
that 'they have been acquainted with the petitioner or peti-
tioners for one year preceding said application for said license,
and that they have good reason to believe, and do believe, that
all the statements contained in said petition are true, and that
they, therefore, pray that the prayer of said petition be granted
and the license issued as prayed for. If, after the notice pro-
vided for in this Act, there be no remonstrance filed with said
clerk against the issuing of any license prayed for, said clerk
shall issue such license upon said petitioner filing a bond, to be
approved by the clerk as hereinbefore provided, but such, bond
shall not be approved until each of said sureties shall have
made oath before the said clerk or a justice of the peace or
notary public, which affidavit shall be attached to the bond,
that he is a bona fide owner of real estate in said county worth
over and above all encumbrances, at the market value thereof,
the sum of one thousand dollars, which bond shall be condi-
tioned to pay all fines and penalties imposed upon the principal
thereof for any violation of this Act; but no person shall be
accepted as a surety on more than one bond in one year, nor
shall any stockholder of any company engaged in the liquor
business, nor any dealer engaged in said business, be accepted
as surety on any such bond, or be permitted to solicit a bond
for a licensee, and paying to said clerk for license to keep an