272 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 125

the license of such person may be at any time upon proof, re-
voked by the Criminal Court of Baltimore City or by the
Board of Liquor License Commissioners; no license under this
Section shall be issued for a longer period than one year; if
issued for a shorter period, the licensee shall pay for every
month for which his license is to run one-twelfth of the annual
charge for such license, and all such licenses shall expire on
the first day of May succeeding their issue; the whole of the
money received by the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
for the licenses aforesaid shall be paid over quarterly by said
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas to the State, as now pro-
vided by law, and when so paid over the the Comptroller of the
Treasury shall draw his warrant upon the Treasurer in favor
of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for three-fourths
thereof, to be applied to the general use of said City.

688A. From and after the date of the passage of this Act
wholesale dealers or jobbers licenses, as defined in Section 688
of this Article, shall be granted only to persons who for two
years prior to such grant have been citizens of this State, or to
corporations which for two years prior to said grant have been
doing business in this State either as resident corporations or
as duly registered foreign corporations, or to the assigns or
successors of such persons or corporations; and the number of
outstanding licenses granted to wholesale dealers or jobbers,
as defined in this Article, shall not at any time exceed the
number of such licenses issued and outstanding on the date at
which this law becomes effective, and the Board of Liquor
License Commissioners shall refuse all applications for such
licenses if the full number of licenses permitted shall then
have been issued and outstanding at the time of application,
but they shall keep a list of such applications thus refused and
shall file, them in the order of their presentation by hour and
day; and upon any license or licenses being revoked or can-
celled or surrendered, so that the number of said licenses as
above limited shall not be then outstanding they shall at once
notify all parties whose applications are on file, by notice left
at the address given in the application, that they are prepared
to consider the issue of such number of licenses as may bring
the total up to the limit and they may in their discretion grant
an additional license or licenses to parties whose applications
are on file in the order of their priority; provided, however,
that the total number of such licenses outstanding shall at
no time exceed the limit provided for in this Act; and upon