984 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ARTICLE XIX.

ST. MARY'S COUNTY.

CHAPTER 401.

AN ACT to repeal chapter 510 of the Acts of the General As-
sembly of Maryland of 1902, entitled "St. Mary's County,"
sub-titled "Spirituous and Fermented Liquors," and to add
in lieu thereof certain sections to article 19 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title "St. Mary's County," sub-title "In-
toxicating Liquors," to be numbered sections 79A, 79B and
79c.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That chapter 510 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of 1902, entitled "St. Mary's County," sub-title "Spir-
ituous and Fermented Liquors," be repealed and the following
sections be enacted in lieu thereof to constitute a new sub-title,
designated "Intoxicating Liquors," the said sections to be
known as 79A, 79B and 79C.

SEC. 79A. No person, firm or corporation shall after the first
day of May, 1908, sell intoxicating liquors of any kind as herein-
after described in St. Mary's county, without first obtaining a li-
cense of the clerk of the Circuit Court of said county, and such
applicants for license shall, if a person, be a citizen of St. Mary's
county and over twenty-one years of age, and if a corporation,
have its principal office in said county and be managed by offi-
cers and directors, all of whom shall be over twenty-one years of
age. The term "Intoxicating Liquors," where used in this and
the two succeeding sections shall be deemed to include whisky,
brandy, rum, gin, wine, ale, beer and all other fermented and
distilled liquors and every mixture of liquors which shall con-
tain more by weight than two per cent, of alcohol, and every
mixture of liquors which shall contain less than two per cent, of
alcohol, if the same shall be intoxicating and shall include as to
quantity anything from one drink to four and a half gallons.
The license fee to be paid to such clerk for such license for the
year beginning on the first day of May, 1908, shall be $75.00;
$56.25 whereof shall be paid to the county, and to the treasurer
thereof upon the order of the County Commissioners, and f 18.75
thereof shall be paid to the State Treasurer, and after the thir-
tieth day of April, 1909, the fund arising from the payment so