ART. 3.] BALTIMORE COUNTY. 667
ous, fermented or intoxicating liquors, or lager beer, to be bar-
tered or sold on Sunday or election day other than primary
election days, no license shall be granted, and his, her or its
application shall be refused, or the court, for any other reason,
as disclosed by proof, may refuse to grant the license applied
for, and in all cases where the applicant or applicants, after
due diligence, has been misled as to the qualification of a
signer or signers to his application, as such qualification has
been defined by this Act, the court or the judge hearing the
protest shall have power to allow him to substitute other sign-
ers in the place and stead of those disqualified, in case the
license would be otherwise granted.
SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the clerk, in giving the notice
required by section 5 of this Act, shall embrace in one notice all
the names of all the persons whose applications shall have been
filed at the time of giving such notice, separating them only
so far as to make such notice easily intelligible to the public,
and if either of the days for the giving of said notice shall be
a Sunday, then such notice shall be given as soon thereafter as
possible, so as to secure two weekly insertions of such notice
in a newspaper published in said county before the time fixed
for cause to be shown against the issuance of the license
applied for.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the court who
receives the said application, certificates and affidavits, shall
file and carefully preserve the same, and after giving said
notice, if no cause be shown as herein provided, and within the
time specified herein, and in cases in which the objections shall
be overruled and the license granted, shall issue to the appli-
cant or applicants the license applied for, upon receiving from
the applicant or applicants the following sums or license fees,
viz: If the license is for twelve months and to sell spirituous
or fermented liquors or both by the drink, or in quantities not
more than a quart, the sum of four hundred dollars; if the
license is for twelve months, and to sell spirituous and fer-
mented liquors in quantities not less than a pint and not to be
drunk on the premises, the said clerk shall enquire of the appli-
cant, under oath by such clerk administered, as to the value of
the stock of spirituous or fermented liquors intended to be
kept on 'hand in the business he proposes to conduct under the
license applied for, and if it shall appear from the statement
then made under oath, that the value of the applicant's stock
of spirituous or fermented liquors will not exceed one thou-
sand dollars, the license fee shall be four hundred dollars; if
more than one thousand dollars and not exceeding two thou-
sand dollars, the license fee shall be four hundred and fifty
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