PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 509

sonal property or to a sale of cider or native wines by the
maker thereof. All licenses to sell spirituous liquors shall ex-
pire on the first day of May next ensuing the date of their issue,
and shall be issued for twelve months or any lesser number of
months, but for no fractional part of a month. No license shall
be issued to any person or persons to sell spirituous or fer-
mented liquors in St. Mary's County aforesaid until he or they
shall have filed an application on or before the first day of the
month preceding the month when said license is to begin with
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said County for such license.
No license under this Act shall be issued for a longer period
than one year, and all licenses shall expire on the first day of
May in each year and if issued for a shorter period than one
year the license shall pay pro rata for the number of months
preceding said first day of May proportioned to the license fee
hereinafter provided for a whole year. Any licensee under this
Act shall be permitted to sell in any quantities from one drink
to four and three-quarter gallons.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That upon the issuing of such
licenses by the Clerk of the Court the applicant shall pay for
the year 1914 to the Clerk the sum of one hundred and fifty
($150) dollars, and for each subsequent year the sum of two
hundred and twenty-five ($225) dollars, from which sums the
said Clerk shall pay twenty-five dollars, annually, into the
Treasury of Maryland, and one-half of the remainder to the
School Commissioners for the use of the schools in said County,
and the remaining one-half to the County Commissioners of
said County to be used upon the public roads, provided, how-
ever, that in the event that St. Mary's County hereafter shall
issue any bonds for public improvements or for the purpose of
paying off any floating debt, that then, and in that event, the
money arising from liquor licenses shall be used by the County
Commissioners to pay the interest on such bonds, and should
there be an excess over and above the interest thereon the
balance is to be used as a sinking fund to pay such bonds at
maturity.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be unlawful
for any licensee under this Act to sell to any minor or habitual
drunkard, and to keep any gambling device, slot machines, faro
tables, sweat cloths, German hazard, crap or any other games of
any character or to permit any card playing upon the premises.
And it shall also be unlawful for any licensee under this Act.
to sell liquors on the Sabbath Day, commonly called Sunday, or