1696 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

more," of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, sub-title
"Liquors and Intoxicating Drinks," as the same was re-enacted
by Chapter 196 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land of 1908, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments so as to read as follows:

678. If after the notice and hearing provided for in this
sub-division of this Article, the said Board shall decide to grant
the license prayed for, they shall notify the applicant of such
decision in writing, and if the applicant shall, within thirty
days from the date when such license granted is to become
effective, produce to the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas,
the said notification, and pay said Clerk the sum of money
herein specified for the particular license prayed for, the said
Clerk shall thereupon issue to him the license granted to him
by the said Board; but every grant of a twelve months' license
upon which no license has been actually taken out and paid for
prior to the first day of June, in the year of its issue, and every
grant of a six months' license upon which no license has been
actually taken out and paid for prior to the first day of Decem-
ber, in the year of its issue, shall be after the said first day of
June or December, respectively, null and void, and no license
shall be issued thereupon.

For a saloon or restaurant in which distilled liquors or any
mixture of distilled liquors containing more than fifteen per
centum of alcohol or fermented liquors containing less than
fifteen per centum of alcohol, may be sold by retail, by the drink,
or in quantities or packages not exceeding five gallons of any
spirituous or fermented liquors, except lager beer, and not
exceeding one keg of eight gallons or less of lager beer to be
drunk on the premises or not, as desired by the purchaser, the
sum of one thousand dollars shall be paid for a twelve months'
license for the twelve months beginning on May 1st, 1914,
and for each succeeding term of twelve months beginning on
the first day of May in each and every year thereafter; and a
sum equal to one-half of said sum, shall be paid for a six
months' license. For a hotel license the same amounts shall
be paid in the same manner.

For a Club license, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dol-
lars shall be paid for a twelve months' license for the term of
twelve months beginning on the first day of May in each and
every year, accounting from May 1, 1914, and a sum equal to
one-half of said sum of $750.00 shall be paid for a six months'
license. For a retail grocer's license, the sum of five hundred