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no license thus assigned, hypothecated or pledged, nor any
duplicate license thus issued, shall be used or disposed of by
any transferee or assignee except for rehypothecation, cancel-
lation or redemption without complying with provisions of
article 690 of this Act.

690B. Any holder of a license to sell intoxicating liquors at
retail, by the drink or otherwise, against whom no indictment
is pending for the violation of the liquor laws during the year
for which said license was granted, and who shall not have been
convicted for any such violation of said liquor laws during the
said year for which the said license was issued, who shall
cease to traffic in liquors during the term for which such license
was issued, and who shall surrender such license to the Board
of Liquor License Commissioners, and who shall at the same
time file with the said Board of Liquor License Commission-
ers a petition in such general form as the board may prescribe,
duly sworn to before a notary public or justice of the peace,
asking to have the license marked "cancelled," shall be entitled
to have the amount paid for such license refunded pro rata for
the unexpired portion of the term for which such license was
granted, less ten dollars, provided that no refund shall be
allowed or paid upon the surrender of such license, unless the
same shall have at least one full calendar month yet to run.
And upon the surrender of said license and the filing of said
petition the said Board of Liquor License Commissioners shall
thereupon compute the amount of refund then due on said
license for the unexpired term thereof, less ten dollars, and
shall execute duplicate vouchers therefor showing the name of
the person to whom the original license was issued, the number
' of said license, the date when issued, the amount paid therefor,
and the date when surrendered for cancellation, together with
the amount of refund due tHereon at such date as computed by
them, the name of the person entitled to receive the refund and
a warrant to the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas directing
him to pay said refund as set forth in said vouchers, to the per-
son so entitled, and one of said vouchers the said board shall
deliver to the person entitled thereto, together with said war-
rant on the clerk of said Court of Common Pleas, and the
other of said vouchers it shall immediately transmit, together
with the surrendered license, to the said clerk of the said Court
of Common Pleas, and the said clerk of the said Court of Com-
mon Pleas upon the presentation and surrender to him of the
said voucher and warrant given to the said petitioner, shall
pay to him or his personal representatives or assigns the
amount called for by such vouchers and warrant, out of such
funds from the proceeds of liquor licenses as may be in his