ART. 11.] FREDERICK COUNTY. 797

be readily identified from such description; sixth, that the
applicant is not, or if the application be by a firm, that no one
of the applicants is in any manner pecuniarily interested in
the profits of any business conducted at any other place in
said county where spirituous or fermented liquors are sold
or kept for sale; seventh, the kind of license desired; eighth,
that no person except the applicant or applicants is in any
manner pecuniarily interested in the business be licensed, and
that no other person shall be in any manner pecuniarily inter-
ested therein during the continuance of the license asked for;
ninth, that the applicants have not nor has any of them, had
a license for the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors in
this State revoked, nor have any of them been convicted of
any offense, indictable under the laws of this State, within two
years preceding the filing of said application, except an unin-
tentional sale of intoxicating liquors and beers to minors, in
which case the facts shall be fully set forth, nor have they or
any of them been refused a license under the provisions of this
Act within one year preceding the filing of said applica-
tion; tenth, that the room in the building where the business
is to be conducted under the license sought is not within sixty
feet of any church building or any school house, if within the
limits of any city, town or village, and not within one-half
of a mile of any church building or school house, if such place
of business is not to be within the limits of any city, town
or village, which said application shall be verified by the
affidavit of the applicant made before the clerk of the Circuit
Court with whom the application is filed, or one of his depu-
ties; and if any false statement is made in any part of said
application, the applicant or applicants so making said affida-
vit shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon indictment and
conviction shall be punished accordingly, and any license issued
upon such application shall be suppressed.

3. That there shall be annexed to said application signed by
at least nine reputable freeholders, bona fide residents of the
neighborhood, who shall be a majority of the resident free-
holders residing nearest to the place, in which the applicant
proposes to conduct the business under the license applied
for and in which each of the persons certifying shall state his
residence or place of business, that he is over twenty-five years
of age; how long he has known the applicant; that he believes
the applicant or applicants to be a proper person or persons
to have the privilege of selling spirituous or fermented liq-
uors, and he accordingly recommends the issuing of the license
applied for.