PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 41

naturalized; fourth, the name of the owner of the premises upon
which the business is to be carried on; fifth, that the applicant
is not, or, if the application is from a firm, that none of the ap-
plicants are in any manner directly or indirectly interested in
the profits of the business conducted in any other place in said
County where any intoxicating liquors are sold or kept for
sale; sixth, that no person except the applicant is in any manner
directly or indirectly interested in the business petitioned to be
licensed, and that no other person shall be pecuniarily interested
therein during the continuance of the license; seventh, that the
applicants have not nor have any of them had a license for the
sale of intoxicating liquors in this State revoked nor has been
convicted of any crime within one year preceding the filing of
said petition; and, provided, the said applicant shall file with the
petition, a written certificate signed by ten male freeholders,
resident citizens within the corporate limits of the town wherein
the applicant desires to sell, setting forth their belief that the
applicant for such license will keep an orderly house and duly
observe all the provisions of this Act; and each signing said
certificate shall make affidavit before said Clerk or before a Jus-
tice of the Peace of said County, that he is over thirty years of
age; that he is the owner of real estate in the town wherein he
resides, of the assessed value of at least three thousand dollars
above encumbrances and that he has not during the current year
signed a certificate for any other person applying for license to
sell spirituous, fermented or malt liquors within said County,
and that he, himself, has not applied for a license to sell spiritu-
tuous, fermented or malt liquors in said County, and said ap-
plicant shall satisfy the said Clerk by his own oath, and by the
oath of two respectable and disinterested witnesses of their
belief therein that he has bona fide and without intending to
evade the spirit and meaning of this Act, duly provided and will
maintain and keep for use at least five chambers more than are
needed for private or the family purposes of said hotel keeper
to be used for the reception of guests or permanent or transient
boarders, and at least six beds with sufficient covering, and all
of said chambers and beds to be and to remain on the said prem-
ises, on which spirituous or fermented liquors are by this Act
licensed to be sold; and each and every applicant shall file in the
office of the said Clerk a bond duly executed to the State of
Maryland with at least three sureties, to be approved by said
Clerk in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned for
the faithful observance of the provisions of this Act, and the
payment of any and all fines, penalties and damages which may