ART. 4.] CITY OF BALTIMORE. 021

bottles or twelve quarts each, but in no case to be drunk on the
premises; distillers and brewers shall require no licenses;
wholesale dealers and jobbers, other than wholesale drug-
gists, shall be entitled to receive a license as such, to sell as
above stated and not otherwise, upon applying directly to the
clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and paying to him the sum
of five hundred dollars for the twelve months beginning on May
1, 1908; the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars for the
twelve months beginning on May 1, 1909; and the sum of one
thousand dollars for the twelve months beginning on May 1, 1910,
and for each succeeding term of twelve months beginning on the
first day of May in each and every year thereafter. But any per-
son,, co-partnership or corporation (other than brewers, who as
hereinbefore stated, require no license), may be licensed to
conduct a bottling business by selling fermented liquors only,
and in quantities or packages not less than twelve pint bottles,
by applying direct to the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
and paying him the sum of eighty dollars for the twelve months
beginning on May 1, 1908; the sura of one hundred and twenty
dollars for the twelve months beginning on May 1, 1909, and
the sum of one hundred and sixty dollars for the twelve months
beginning on May 1, 1910, and for each succeeding term of
twelve months, beginning on the first day of May in each and
every year thereafter. Wholesale druggists shall be entitled
to receive a license as such, to sell under the same conditions
as above stated with respect to distillers, brewers and whole-
sale dealers or jobbers, other than wholesale druggists, and not
otherwise, upon applying directly to the clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas and paying to him the sum of two hundred and
fifty dollars. But no such wholesale druggist's license to sell
wines, spirituous or fermented liquors shall be given to any
applicant who, or whose concern, generally keeps on hand, or, in
the case of application for the first time, expects to generally keep
on hand at the principal season of sale, an amount of stock of
wine, spirituous or fermented liquors in excess of five per centum
of the total amount of stock of goods, wares and merchandise
generally kept on hand by him, or the said concern, at the princi-
pal season of sale, and every applicant for such wholesale drug-
gist's license shall, in addition to the statement on oath now
required by law of applicants for trader's licenses as to their
total stock of goods, wares and merchandise, state to the clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas on oath to be administered by
the clerk, the amount of said applicant's stock of wines, spir-
ituous or fermented liquors generally kept on hand by him, or
the concern in which he is engaged, at the principal season
of sale, or, if said applicant shall not have previously engaged