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or a non-resident of the State of Maryland, shall have any in-
terest in the business for which license hereunder is applied
for; provided, however, that the conditions of this paragraph
as well as the aforegoing twelfth paragraph of this section
shall not apply to licenses to sell spirituous or fermented
liquors granted to bona fide hotel-keepers or tavern-keepers.
Fifttenth, a statement of all persons interested or to be inter-
ested in the business. Sixteenth, this petition shall be verified
by the affidavit of the applicant or applicants made before a
justice of the peace, a notary public or Clerk of the Circuit
Court. If any false statement be made in any part of said
petition, the petitioner or petitioners shall, upon indictment and
conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of perjury and such li-
cense revoked, and he, she or they be subject to the penalties
provided by law for that crime; provided, however, that para-
graphs 12 and 14 of this section shall not apply to licenses to
sell spirituous or fermented liquors by retailers, under Article
56, Sections 55 to 66, inclusive, of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland.

175c. There shall be annexed to said petition a certificate
signed by at least six reputable citizens residing or doing busi-
ness in the neighborhood in which the petitioner or petitioners
applies or apply for a license to do business stating the full
name, residence or place of business of each person certifying
that they have been acquainted with the petitioner or petition-
ers for one year preceding said application for said licenses,
and that they have good reason to believe and do believe that
all the statements contained in said petition are true, and that
they therefore pray that the prayer of said petitioner be
granted and the licenses be issued as prayed for. If after the
notice provided for in this Act, there be no remonstrance filed
with said clerk against the issuing of any licenses prayed for,
said clerk shall issue such license upon said petitioner filing
with said clerk a bond as hereinbefore provided, to be ap-
proved by said clerk, and paying said clerk for license to keep
an oyster house, cook shop, victualling house, tavern, lager
beer saloon or any ordinary license to sell spirituous or fer-
mented liquors, the sum of one hundred dollars; fifty dollars
of which shall be paid to the State and fifty dollars shall be
paid to the treasurer of Allegany County for county purposes;
any paying for licenses to sell spirituous or fermented liquors
by retailers, under Article 56, sections 55 to 66, inclusive, as
aforesaid, the license fee required by said Article 56, sections
55 to 66, inclusive. And the County Commissioners, on re-
quest of the Court, shall set aside ten per cent, of the license
fees paid to the treasurer of Allegany County as such license
fees, to be used in the discretion of the Court, in discovering