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the filing of a new application by the parties who originally
applied, within five days after such notice has been issued,
they may in their discretion grant new licenses in the place of
those cancelled, in all cases giving priority to any thus reap-
plying whose original application shall have been first on file;
and upon the expiration of said licenses to wholesale dealers
and jobbers at the end of the license year as in this Article
provided, they shall upon application renew the license of such
wholesale dealers or jobbers who before May 1st of each year
shall apply for such renewal, before granting any license to
new applicants, and they shall grant no license to any new
applicants except where the applications for renewal fall below
the total number above authorized.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts
of acts inconsistent with this Act be and the same are hereby
repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is an
emergency law and necessary for the immediate preservation
of the public health and safety and the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all suits, actions
or proceedings (both civil and criminal) pending or which may
hereafter be instituted for cause of action existing, or for
offenses already committed at the time that this Act takes effect
under the provisions of said Sections 671, 673, 674, 675, 676,
683, 685, 687, 688 and 688A, of Article 4, of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "City of Baltimore, " sub-
title "Liquors and Intoxicating Drinks, " amended by this Act,
shall not be affected by this Act, but shall be instituted, pro-
ceeded with and prosecuted to final determination and judg-
ment, as if this Act had not been passed.

^Approved March 29th, 1918.

CHAPTER 126.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 157, 158, 159, 160, 160A, 160B
and 160C of Article 9 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Charles County, " sub-title "Roads and
Bridges, " as said sections were amended by Chapter 50 of
the Acts of 1910, Chapter 7 of the Acts of 1912, and Chap-