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more than a quart; seventh, the particular place where the
business is to be conducted under the license applied for, speci-
fying the same by definite designation and description; eighth,
that no person except the applicant or applicants is or are in
any manner pecuniarily interested therein during the continu-
ance of the license applied for; ninth, the applicant or appli-
cants has or have not, nor has any of them had a license for the
sale of intoxicating or spirituous or fermented liquors in this
State revoked, nor have they or any of them been convicted of
any felony or any violations of the liquor laws of Baltimore
county within one year preceding the filing of said petition;
and which said application shall be verified by the affidavit of
the applicant or applicants, made before the clerk of said
court, to whom the application is made; and if any knowing
false statement is made in any part of said application, the
applicant or applicants who made oath to the said application
before said clerk, shall be deemed guilty of the crime of per-
jury, and upon indictment and conviction, shall be punished
accordingly, and any license issued upon such application shall
be suppressed.

SEC. 4. And lie it enacted, That there shall be annexed to
said application a certificate signed by at least ten reputable
taxpayers, bona fide residents of the neighborhood in which
the applicant or applicants propose to conduct business under
the license applied for, in which the person certifying shall
each state his or her place of residence or place of business;
that he or she is over twenty-one years of age; how long he or
she has known the applicant or applicants; that he or she be-
lieves the statements contained in the application to be true;
that from his or her knowledge of the applicant or applicants,
and his or her acquaintance with him or them, he or she be-
lieves the applicant or applicants is or are a proper person or
persons to have the privilege of selling spirituous or fermented
liquors, and he or she accordingly recommends the issuing of
the license applied for; but where a person signs more than
one application and a license has actually been issued under
one of such applications, his name shall not be considered on
the other applications, and as to them, his signature shall be
treated as a nullity and disregarded by the court, and in cases
where a person has signed more than one application aiid no
license has been issued as above mentioned, the court shall
decide upon which application his name shall be considered,
and when the court shall have determined the application upon
which his name shall be considered, his signature upon others
shall be disregarded, it being the intent of this Act that no
person shall validly sign more than one application; but this