268 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 125

673. Every applicant applying for a license to sell intoxi-
cating liquors in said City shall file with the said Board a
petition for such license, and the Board shall cause notification
of such petition to be published three times in three newspa-
pers of general circulation in said City, to be designated by
said Board; the first publication to be not less than fifteen nor
more than thirty days before the time fixed by the Board for
action on said petitions.

674. Said petition shall contain (1) the name and resi-
dence of the applicant and how long applicant has resid-
ed there; (2) the particular place for which a license is
desired, designating the same by street and number, if prac-
ticable, and, if not, by such other apt description as definitely
locates it; (3) the kind of license desired, whether a saloon
license, hotel license, retail grocer's license, wholesale drug-
gist's license, wholesale; trader's license, or license for a
bottler of fermented liquors; (4) the name of the owner of
the premises upon which the business is licensed to be carried
on; (5) a statement that the applicant is a citizen of the
United States, and that it is necessary for the accommodation
of the public that the place should be licensed; (6) that the
applicants have not, nor has any of them, had a license for the
sale of intoxicating liquors in this State revoked, or, if the ap-
plicants or any of them shall at any time have had a license
for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this State revoked, a full
statement shall be made of the circumstances attendant upon
such revocation, nor has been convicted of any crime within
one year preceding the filing of said petition; (7) that appli-
cant will not knowingly sell, or allow to be sold in the said
house or on the said premises any such liquors on Sunday or
on election days, or to minors at any time, or allow a minor to
drink in said house or on said premises; that applicant will not
keep or permit to be kept a bawdy house in the said house or
on the said premises, or the gathering together or the visita-
tion to said house or premises of women for lewd or immoral
purposes; (8) this petition must be verified by the affidavit of
the petitioner, made before a Notary Public; if any false
statement is made in any part of said petition, the license
granted or issued to the petitioner may be at any time upon
proof revoked by the Board of Liquor License Commissioners
and the petitioner shall also be deemed guilty of perjury, and
upon indictment and conviction thereof, his license shall be
revoked by the Criminal Court of Baltimore City or by the