60 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 31

ingly made upon the part of the applicant or any applicant
therein, any license issued upon such application shall be re-
voked, annulled and suppressed.

The forms of application for license, as aforesaid, shall con-
tain appropriate places with proper and sufficient spaces for
each and all of the statements above mentioned and required.

4. There shall be annexed to said application a certificate
signed by at least ten reputable taxpayers, who are and for at
least one year prior to the date of said application have been
actual bona fide residents of the neighborhood in which the
applicant or applicants propose to conduct business under the
license applied for, in which the person certifying, shall each
state his, or her place of residence or place of business; that
he or she is over twenty-one years of age; how long he or she
has known the applicant or applicants; that he or she believes
the statements contained in the application to be true; that
from his or her knowledge of the applicant or applicants, and
his or her acquaintance with him or them, he or she believes
the applicant or applicants is or are a proper person or persons
to have the privilege of selling spirituous or fermented liquors,
and he or she accordingly recommends the issuing of the license
applied for; but where a person signs more than one applica-
tion and a license has actually been issued under one of such
applications, his name shall not be considered on the other ap-
plications, and as to them, his signature shall be treated as a
nullity and disregarded by the Court, and in cases where a
person has signed more than one application and no license has
been issued as above mentioned, the Court shall decide upon
which application his name shall be considered, and when the
Court shall have determined the application upon which his
name shall be considered, his signature upon others shall be
disregarded, it being the intent of this Act that no person shall
validly sign more than one application; but this Section shall
not apply to wholesale dealers nor to brewers.

5. Upon the filing of such application and certificate, the
applicant or applicants shall pay to the Clerk with whom the
same are filed, the sum of two dollars to be applied to paying
the expense of advertising as hereafter provided for, and there-
upon such Clerk shall, upon the first day of April, if such
license is for twelve months; or upon the first day of October,
if such license is for six months; publish a notice in some
newspaper published in said County for two successive weeks,
giving notice that the applicant or applicants have filed such