326 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

oyster house, cook shop, victualling house, tavern, lager beer
saloon or any ordinary license to sell spirituous or fermented
liquors, the sum of one hundred dollars, fifty dollars of which
shall be paid to the State and fifty dollars shall be paid to the
Treasurer of Allegany county for county purposes; and paying
for licenses to sell spirituous or fermented liquors by retailers,
under article 56, sections 55 to 66, inclusive, as aforesaid, the
license fee required by said article 56, sections 55 to 66, inclu-
sive. And the County Commissioners, on request of the Court,
shall set aside ten per cent, of the license fees paid to the
Treasurer of Allegany county for such license fees, to be used,
in the discretion of the Court, in discovering violations of the
law as to sales on Sunday or during closing hours and election
day, and securing evidence thereof; provided, however, that if
there be any remonstrances against the issuing of such license
to any one petitioning therefor, the said clerk shall not issue
the same, and the Circuit Court for Allegany county shall fix a
day as early as practicable when petitions and remonstrances
shall be heard; provided that all remonstrances against grant-
ing licenses shall be filed within ten days after the filing of
application for licenses under this Act; and after the year 1908
no original applications for licenses shall be filed earlier than
the 1st day of April in each year; and said Court shall, in its
discretion, whenever in its opinion the petitioner or petitioners
is or are unfit person or persons to be granted such licenses, or,
in the discretion of the court, the place for which license is
applied for is not a proper one with reference to the public
peace and general welfare of the neighborhood or to the char-
acter of its inhabitants, due regard being given to the number
of said licenses issued for said neighborhood, the court having
the discretion to allow or disallow the license at the place
applied for, direct said clerk not to issue the same; but if said
court shall determine that such license shall be issued, then
the clerk shall issue the same; provided that no license under
this Act shall be issued to any applicant therefor until the
license fee hereinbefore provided for shall have been paid and
the bond herein provided for shall have been given, filed and
approved and all other provisions of this Act complied with.

175D. No license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors or
lager beer in Allegany county in the quantities prescribed in
this Act shall be granted to any person or persons other than
citizens of the United States, of temperate habits and good
moral character, who have complied with the provisions and
requirements of this Act, to keep an oyster house, cook shop,
victualling house, tavern, lager beer saloon or for an ordinary
license to sell spirituous liquors in Allegany county in quanti-