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Allegany County shall fix a day as early as practicable when
petitions and remonstrances shall be heard provided that all
remonstrances against granting licenses shall be filed within
twenty days after filing of application for licenses under this
Act; and said Court shall, in its discretion, whenever in its
opinion the petitioner or petitioners is or are unfit person or
persons to be granted such licenses, or. in the discretion of the
Court, the place of which license is applied for is not a proper
one with reference to the public peace and general welfare of
the neighborhood or to the character of its inhabitants, due re-
gard being given to the number of said licenses issued for said
neighborhood, the Court having the discretion to allow or dis-
allow the license at the place applied for, direct said Clerk
not to issue the same; but if said Court shall determine that
such license shall be issued, then the Clerk shall issue the
same; provided, that no license under this Act shall be issued
to any applicant therefor until the license fee, hereinbefore
provided, shall have been paid and the bond herein provided
for shall have been given, filed and approved, and all other
provisions of this Act complied with.

Approved April 4th, 1916.

CHAPTER 151.

AN ACT to make valid deeds, mortgages, bonds of convey-
ances, bills of sale, and all other conveyance of real and
personal property, or of any interest, defective in acknowl-
edgment or in the certificate thereof, or when the official
character of the officer taking the acknowledgment has not
been stated in the body of the certificate or certified to, as
required by law, or when the conveyance has not been wit-
nessed and sealed, or any mortgage or assignment of mort-
gage defectively sworn to or not sworn to at all.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Chapters 259 and 421, of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, Session of 1914, entitled "An
Act to make valid deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance, bills
of sale, and all other conveyance of real and personal property,
or of any interest, defective in acknowledgment or in the cer-
tificate thereof, or when the official character of the officer
taking the acknowledgment has not been certified to, as re-