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missioners shall determine that the said business, entertain-
ment or amusement carried on, or proposed to be carried on by
any such applicant is not detrimental to the public health,
morals, safety or welfare of the people of Queen Anne's
County, they shall issue a certificate to such applicant, directed
to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County, to
issue a license or permit to the said applicant to open, carry
on or conduct the business covered by the said application; and
it shall thereupon become and be the duty of the Clerk of the
Circuit Court to issue a license or permit to the said applicant
upon payment to the said Clerk of the sum of twenty-five cents.
SEC. 288. Any person, firm, corporation, association or or-
ganization feeling aggrieved by any decision of the Board of
County Commissioners, affecting his or its interests, under this
Act, may have the same reviewed by a proceeding in the nature
of an appeal initiated in the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's
County, and the Court shall determine whether the Board of
County Commissioners has justly considered all the facts in any
application that may be made under the provisions of this Act.
If the Court shall determine that the Board of County Com-
missioners has acted within its powers and has correctly con-
strued the law and the facts, its decision shall be confirmed,
otherwise it shall be reversed or modified. Upon the hearing
of such an appeal the right of trial by jury shall be preserved
to any party to such appeal, according to the practice in civil
cases. The proceedings in any such appeal shall be informal
and summary, but full opportunity shall be had to be heard
before judgment is pronounced. No appeal shall be enter-
tained until notice of the same shall have been given per-
sonally to some member of the Board of County Commissioners
within thirty days following the rendition of the decision ap-
pealed from. An appeal shall lie from the judgment of the
Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County to the Court of Ap-
peals as in other civil cases, but no appeal taken to the Circuit
Court, or to the Court of Appeals shall stay any action taken
by the Board of County Commissioners upon any such applica-
tion.
SEC. 289. The County Commissioners of Queen Anne's
County may at any time after due notice, and a public hearing,
revoke any license granted under the authority of this Act,
when it shall be made to appear to them that the business, enter-
tainment or amusement for which the said license was granted
is being operated or conducted in a manner detrimental to the
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