1488 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680

signing and resident for a like period of two years within the
corporate limits of said city; and the said petition shall certify
that the said applicant is a proper person to be licensed, and
pray that license may be granted to such applicant, and said
person applying for license shall also file with the said Clerk a
bond, duly executed to the State of Maryland, with at least
two sureties, approved by the said Clerk, in the penal sum of
one thousand dollars, conditioned for the payment of any or
all fines, penalties and costs to which the person obtaining such
license may become liable by reason of the violation of any
of the provisions of this Article; and 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 sim-
ple of real estate in Harford County of the assessed value, over
and above all incumbrances, of at least one thousand dollars,
and that said surety has not within the current year executed
a bond for any other applicant to sell spirituous or fermented
liquors in said city; and no person other than one who has
been a bona fide resident of Havre de Grace for the period of
two years next preceding his application for a license, as here-
inbefore mentioned, shall be permitted to receive a license to
sell spirituous or fermented liquors in said city; provided, how-
ever, that if any person shall have heretofore been issued a
license for the sale or barter of the liquors aforesaid, who shall
not have been a bona fide resident of said city for two years,
such person shall be entitled to have such license issued to him
upon complying with the various provisions of this section,
except, however, the provisions requiring a bona fide residence
for two years within said city.

Section 362. The Clerk of the Circuit Court may in his
discretion require such further and other proof, by the written
affidavit of other parties, to be filed in his office, as to the suf-
ficiency of said bond, as he may deem proper; and if said Clerk
shall wilfully or negligently grant a license to any person who
shall not have complied with the provisions of said sections of
this sub-title of this article, said Clerk shall, upon indictment
and conviction thereof, be fined not less than fifty dollars nor
more than three hundred dollars for each offense.

Section 363. Should any resident of the City of Havre de
Grace protest against the granting of such license to any ap-
plicant, the said clerk shall hear the said protest, after reason-
able notice to both protestant and applicant, and upon such
evidence as either party may offer, and determine whether or
not such license shall be granted; and from his determination