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prior to the time of so 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 per-
son to be licensed, and pray that license may be granted to such
applicant, and said person applying for license shall also file
with 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 two 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 or Notary Public of said County,
that said surety is the owner in fee simple of real estate in.
Harford County of the assessed value, over and above all en-
cumbrances, of at least two 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 the one who has been a resi-
dent of Havre de Grace for the period of three years next
preceding his application for license, as hereinbefore men-
tioned, shall be permitted to receive a license to sell spirituous
or fermented liquors in said city. And said applicant shall
within ten days after the filing of said petition with said Clerk
cause to be published in some newspaper printed and published
in the city of Havre de Grace, a notice setting forth that he or
they have made application, to the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for said County for a hotel liquor license in the City of Havre.
de Grace, in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

Before said Clerk shall issue a license to the applicant there-
for, there shall be filed with him a certificate of publication
from the publisher of the paper in which the aforesaid notice
was published, stating that the said notice has been published
in accordance with the provisions of this section; which certifi-
cate of publication shall be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Harford County, within thirty day's from the date of
the filing of the applicant's petition for license.

Section 191. No license to sell spirituous or fermented
liquors in said city shall be granted any applicant therefor
until such person shall file a written affidavit sworn to before
said clerk, that said applicant has bona fide, and without in-
tending to evade the spirit and meaning of said sections of this
sub-title of this article, duly provided, and will at all times