ART. 7.] CARROLL COUNTY. 691

licenses shall expire on the first day of May in each year; if
issued for a shorter period, the licensee shall pay for every
month for which his license is to run until the first day of May,
one-twelfth of the annual charge for such license, and such frac-
tional license shall go into effect upon the first of the month
following the expiration of the notice of his application.

SEC. 54p. If, after the notice provided for in this Act has
been given there be no remonstrance filed with said clerk
against the issuing of the license applied for within the time
fixed by said notice, and said petition is in accord with the
requirements of this law, then said clerk shall issue said
license, to go into effect the first day of the succeeding month,
upon the petitioner or petitioners paying to said clerk, if the
proposed place of sale is located in the city of Westminster,
or within one-half mile of the corporate limits thereof, the
sum of three hundred dollars; and elsewhere in said county,
the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars; as well as the further
sum of fifty cents as a fee to the clerk. But if there be any
remonstrance or objection filed against the issuing of any
license petitioned for before the expiration of the time fixed by
the notice above required, the clerk shall not issue the same,
but shall at once refer the petition and objection or remon-
strance to the Circuit Court for Carroll county, and any judge
thereof shall fix a date as early as practicable when said peti-
tion and remonstrance shall be heard, and the clerk shall docket
the case, notify -the parties of the time fixed, and at such hearing
the burden of proof shall be upon the petitioner to establish
such allegations of his petition as are denied by the remon-
strance. The said court shall, in its discretion, whenever in its
opinion the petitioner is or petitioners are unfit person or per-
sons to be granted such license, or the place for which the said
license is applied is not a proper one for the sale of intoxi-
cating liquors with reference to the location of any of the
public schools or churches of the county, or any other sufficient
cause, or if the petitioner has not complied with all the pre-
requisites of this Act, direct said clerk not to issue said license,
and if said court shall determine that said license shall be
issued, then the clerk shall issue the,same, upon payment to him
of the license fee hereinbefore provided for; and the judge hear-
ing said petition and remonstrance shall impose the payment of
the costs of such hearing in such manner as he may deem equita-
ble and just.

SEC. 54G. The clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll county
shall keep and preserve in his office a full record of all appli-
cations for licenses and all recommendations for and remon-