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lewd or immoral purposes. (7) That said applicant or appli-
cants has or hare been a resident or residents of said county
for more than one year prior to the filing of said petition;
or if said applicant or applicants has or have not been a resi-
dent or residents of said county for at least one year, then on
account of the character of business he has or they have engaged
in for the preceding two years; the place or places where car-
ried on, and whether or not during said period of time he has
or they have been convicted of any crime or misdemeanor, and
if he has or they have, a certified copy of the proceedings in
such case shall be filed with said petition. (8) That six reputa-
ble freeholders above the age of twenty-five years, who are bona
fide residents of the neighborhood in which the business peti-
tioned to be licensed is to be conducted, and whose signatures
are subscribed to said petition certify that he or they are a
proper person or persons to conduct said business, and recom-
mend that the licnse applied for be issued. (9) That no person
or persons other than the petitioner or petitioners has or shall
have any interest in the business for which the license is
applied.

SEC. 54D. Every such petition shall be signed and verified
by the affidavit of the applicant or applicants, made before the
clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll county, and to said
petition shall be attached the certificate of the freeholders
who recommend the issuing of the license which shall be sub-
scribed by them; and the fact that a freeholder is a resident of
another county shall not ipso facto disqualify him from signing
such certificate; and no freeholder shall recommend the issuing
of more than one license or sign more than one petition, except
in cases of the assignment of licenses. In cases where two
or more recommendations shall be signed by the same person,
the one first filed with the clerk shall be considered as first
signed, and his signature to all subsequent petitions shall be
deemed void and of no effect. If any false statement of fact
be made in any part of said petition, the petitioner or peti-
tioners shall, upon indictment and conviction thereof, be deemed
guilty of perjury, and the license, if any, shall be revoked, and
he or they shall be subject to the penalties provided by the
general laws of this State for the crime of perjury.

SEC. 54E. No license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors
in said county shall be granted to any person who is not a
citizen of the United States, and at the time an actual resi-
dent of Carroll county, of temperate habits and good moral
character, and who has in addition complied with the pro-
visions and requirements of this Act. No license under this
Act shall be issued for a longer period than one year, and all"