ART. 1. ] ALLEGANY COUNTY. 329
sale to minors, the court may, in its discretion, or may not
suppress the license as to the person and place as herein set
forth, and in default of payment of fine and costs so imposed
the bond herein provided for shall be put in suit for the recov-
ery thereof. Any person not a licensee who shall knowingly
procure for or give to an habitual drunkard or to any person
of intemperate habits any spirituous or fermented liquors or
lager beer in violation of the provisions of this Act shall be
subject to a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or to
imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months,
or both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
Any person not a licensee who shall procure for, sell, furnish or
give to any person who is a minor or under twenty-one years of
age any spirituous or fermented liquors or lager beer shall,
upon indictment and conviction, be subject to a fine of not more
than one hundred dollars or to imprisonment in the county
jail for not more than six months, or both fine and imprison-
ment, in the discretion of the court. The license of any person
who permits minors to frequent, loiter or loaf about his place
of business, or disreputable or disorderly persons to make it
a customary place of visitation or resort, may at any time
on indictment and conviction, be revoked by the Circuit Court
for Allegany county, and the same person shall not again be
granted license under this Act within three years of the time
of such revocation and shall be subject to fine and imprison-
ment, as hereinbefore provided. Remonstrances may be filed
with the said clerk against any kind of a license at any time
such license has been granted under this Act or any other" for
the sale of liquor, and as soon thereafter as. practicable the
court shall set the same down for hearing, notice of which shall
be given to the licensee by service of a copy of the order for
hearing, and when, upon such hearing, the court shall, in its
discretion, determine that the public welfare and the peace
and good order of the community require it, revoke such license,
and the person whose license is so revoked shall not again be
granted license under this Act within three years from the
date of such revocation. In the trial of all remonstrances
evidence of the general reputation of the applicant, licensee and
house shall be admissible. Remonstrances may be filed imme-
diately after the passage of this Act against all licenses for the
sale of spirituous and fermented liquors or lager beer in any
quantity whatsoever now in force in Allegany county. It is
the intention of this Act that licenses to sell spirituous and
fermented liquors by retailers under article 56, sections 55 to
66, inclusive, of the Code of Public General Laws of 1888, shall
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