PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 23T

CHAPTER 174.

AN ACT defining a Club and regulating the terms and condi-
tions under which it may sell spirituous or fermented liquors,
or lager beer in Washington County, and fixing penalties for
a Violation thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That for the purposes of this Act a dub shall be defined
to be a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the
State of Maryland, and either owning real estate situated in
Washington County, Maryland, of an assessed valuation of not
less than five thousand dollars, or being a subordinate lodge of an
American fraternal organization which owns real estate as afore-
said.

SEC. 2. And lie it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for
any club or clubs to sell spirituous, fermented or intoxicating
liquors in Washington County, Maryland, until it or they shall
comply with the following conditions: Every club proposing
to sell liquor as aforesaid in said County shall file with the
clerk for the Circuit Court for Washington County its petition
for such license, and shall at the same time pay to said clerk
two dollars for expenses connected therewith, and said clerk
shall cause to be published three times in at least one newspaper
published in a town or city in or near which the said club is
located, a list of the names of all such club applicants, and the
location of the club house, for club rooms, where it is proposed
to sell said liquors, as aforesaid, and where, under the provis-
ions of this Act, the publication might be made in one of several
newspapers, the applicant may designate the one in which the
publication may be made. The first application shall not be less,
than, twenty days before the time fixed by said clerk for the con-
sideration of such application. The said petition shall state the
name of said club applicant and the date of its incorporation
which shall be not less than two years from the time of filing said
application, the place of its incorporation and the number of its
membership, which shall not be less than fifty, and the amount
of annual due's, which shall not be less than five dollars per year.
The location of the club house or club rooms for which the license
is desired, designating the same by street and number if prac-
ticable, but if not, by such other apt description as shall defi-
nitely locate it. The name of said club house or club rooms in
which the business, if licensed, is to be carried on. That the
said applicant has not had a license for the sale of intoxicating
liquors revoked under the provisions of this law. That the said