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to sell or assign said license to another person to be used at the
same place or another place of business in said county; pro-
vided, the said purchaser or assignee or intended purchaser or
assignee shall make due application therefor on the recommen-
dation of ten reputable taxpayers, advertisement of same in
newspapers, etc., as required in case of an original application
for such license, and if no objections are interposed in the man-
ner set forth in an original application, then the said clerk of
the Circuit Court for Baltimore County shall endorse the trans-
fer upon the license, and shall be entitled to receive a fee of
fifty cents therefor, and the same shall then take effect; but
should there be an objection filed to the transfer or assignment
of said license, then the same proceedings shall be had before a
judge of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, as in case of
objections to an original application, and the costs of the same
to be taxed in the same manner.

245. Should any license, after the same has been granted, be
destroyed by fire or otherwise, the clerk of the Circuit Court
for Baltimore County, upon due application made to him by
the licensee, shall issue a duplicate license to said licensee with-
out further charge or cost, except fifty cents to said clerk.

246. In case the licensee dies, his widow, executor or admin-
istrator may carry on the business under the license until its
expiration.

247. It shall not be lawful for any person, house, company,
association or corporate body to sell, directly or indirectly, or
to give away at his or its place of business, any spirituous, fer-
mented or intoxicating liquors of any origin whatever, or alco-
holic bitters, within an area or district of territory in Balti-
more county, commencing at a stone planted on the north side
of the Patapsco river and near to the bank thereof, opposite to
and in a northerly direction from the Alberton cotton mills, in
Howard county, and extending two miles in all directions in

said Baltimore county from the said point of commencement.

248. If any person, house, company, association or body cor-
porate shall sell, directly or indirectly, at any place, or give
away at his or its place of business, any spirituous or fer-
mented liquors or alcoholic bitters, or intoxicating drinks of any
kind, within the limits of the said area or district in Baltimore
county, he or it shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay on
the first conviction a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more
than three hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, or instead
of such fine, be imprisoned in the county jail for thirty days,
or both, in the discretion of the court; and on the second and
every subsequent conviction not less than one hundred dollars,