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be imposed or recovered under this Act; provided, that each
surety on said bond shall make affidavit before said Clerk or
before a Justice of the Peace of said County, that said surety
is the owner in fee simple of unencumbered real estate in Gar-
rett County of the assessed value of at least two thousand dol-
lars, and that said surety has not within the current year exe-
cuted a bond for any other applicant to sell spirituous or fer-
mented liquors in Garrett County; said bond shall be respon-
sible to all such persons hereinafter described as may be injured
by the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors sold in violation
of the provisions of this Act. No bond of any applicant shall
be approved by said Clerk, if it shall appear to him that either of
the sureties thereon or that any applicant has become surety
upon the bond of any other applicant. Said application shall be
verified by the affidavit of the applicant made before the
Clerk of the Court to whom the application is made, and if
any false statement is made in any part of said application the
applicant, or applicants shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and
upon indictment and conviction shall be punished accordingly,
and any license issued upon such application shall be sup-
pressed.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That no license to sell spirituous
or fermented liquors in Garrett County shall be granted to any
hotel keeper who shall have complied with the provisions of this
Act, until such applicant in addition to the sum or sums now re-
quired or which hereafter may be required to be paid by the gen-
eral license law of this State, shall also pay to said Clerk the sum
of three hundred dollars, and the said amounts received by said
Clerk for licenses as aforesaid, shall be by him paid over to the
County Commissioners of said County for the use of said
County.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That all sums received by said
Clerk for licenses issued under this Act shall be accounted for
and paid over by said Clerk to the County Commissioners of
Garrett County within thirty days after the receipt of the same,
and the official bond of said Clerk shall be liable for all said
sums received for licenses issued under this Act, and said Clerk
shall be entitled to charge and receive the sum of two dollars
and fifty cents for each license issued by him under the provi-
sions of this Act, to be paid by the applicant therefor.

SEC. 18. ' And be it enacted, That all licenses issued under
this Act shall expire on the first day of May next thereafter, but
licenses may be issued for a shorter period than one year upon