372 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 199

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect on January first in the year nineteen hundred and
seventeen.

Approved April 4th, 1916.

CHAPTER 199.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 188,
189, 193, 192, 193 and 211 of Article 13 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Harford County, "
sub-title "Havre de Grace. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 188, 189, 191, 192, 193 and 211 of
Article 13 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title
"Harford County, " sub-title "Havre de Grace, " be and the
same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, said
amended sections to read as follows:

Section 188. No person in Havre de Grace shall obtain a
license for the sale or barter of spirituous or fermented liquors
in any quantity whatever, except such as shall be qualified as
hereinafter provided, and be a regular hotel keeper; and any
person who may keep a house for the reception of guests, or of
permanent or transient boarders, containing at least six sleep-
ing chambers, containing therein for use at all times six good
beds, with sufficient covering therefor, and who shall have upon
the first or second floor of such house a dining room of at
least two hundred square feet of floor space, with dining ac-
commodations therein at all times for at least twenty guests, a
ladies' parlor of at least one hundred and fifty square feet floor
space, and an office and bar on the ground floor thereof; shall
be a hotel keeper within the meaning of this sub-title of this
Article.

Section 189. Any person who has been a bona fide resi-
dent of Havre de Grace for the period of three years next
preceding the application hereinafter provided for, who shall
desire to take out a license for the sale or barter of spirit-
uous or fermented liquors, in any quantity whatsoever, shall
file with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Harford County
a petition in writing, signed by himself and at least five
freeholders who have been such for a period of two years