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nor be interested in any contract to which said corporation is
a party, or where the money for said contract is to be paid out
of the corporation treasury.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6, 1908.

CHAPTER 71.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 6 of
chapter 554 of the Acts of 1904, entitled "An Act to repeal
and re-enact with the amendments section 6 of chapter 610
of the Acts of 1890, entitled 'An Act to enable the qualified
voters of Garrett county to determine by ballot whether
spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters shall be
sold in said county, and to regulate the terms and condi-
tions on which the sale thereof may be made in case the
majority of the voters of said county shall determine said
question in the affirmative, and to regulate the sale thereof
by druggists and pharmacists.' "

SECTION 1. Be it- enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 6 of chapter 610 of the Acts of 1890, as
repealed and re-enacted by chapter 554 of the Acts of 1904,
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments so as to read as follows:

6. No spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters
shall be sold in any election district of said county except as
provided for by section 5 of this Act, and also upon the fol-
lowing terms, viz: Each and every applicant, person or per-
sons, house, corporation, company or association shall be rec-
ommended to said clerk by at least seven respectable freehold-
ers assessed for at least two thousand dollars living in the
election district in which said saloon is located and within
two miles of the place where said liquors or alcoholic bitters
are to be sold, as a fit person to traffic in the article. Nor until
such applicant or applicants applying for such license shall
have filed with said clerk a bond with at least two sureties to
be approved by said clerk in the penal sum of two thousand
dollars, conditioned to the payment of all fines, penalties, costs
and damages to which the person or persoms obtaining said
license may become liable for any violation of any of the license
laws of this State, and said clerk is hereby prohibited from
approving any bond under this section unless it shall appear
to him by good evidence that the sureties on said bond are