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before required, if no cause be shown as hereinbefore pro-
vided, and in cases in which the objections shall be overruled
or in which the Court shall approve of and direct the granting
and issuing of the license, shall issue to the applicant or appli-
cants the license applied for upon receiving from the applicant
or applicants the following sums or license fees, viz: If the
license is for twelve months, and to sell spirituous; fermented
or intoxicating liquors, or both, by the drink, or in quantities
not more than four and seven-eighths gallons, and such license
is herein defined to be a retail license, the sum of four hundred
dollars; if the license is for twelve months, and to sell spir-
ituous, fermented or intoxicating liquors in quantities not lees
than a pint and not to be drunk on the premises, and such
license is herein defined to be a wholesale license, the said
Clerk shall inquire of the applicant, under oath by such Clerk
administered, as to the value of the stock of spirituous or fer-
mented liquors intended to be kept on hand in the business he
proposes to conduct under the license applied for, and if it
shall appear from the statement then made under oath that the
value of the applicant's stock of spirituous or fermented liq-
uors will not exceed one thousand dollars the license fee shall
be four hundred dollars; if more than one thousand dollars,
and not exceeding two thousand dollars, the license fee shall be
four hundred and fifty dollars; if more than two thousand dol-
lars, the license fee shall be five hundred dollars. If the
license is for twelve months, and to sell spirituous, fermented
or intoxicating liquors in original packages as filled and pre-
pared for delivery by any brewer or brewing company, and
such, license is herein defined to be a brewer's license, the
license fee shall be fifteen hundred dollars. Before issuing
any license under this Act, the Clerk of the Circuit Court or
his acting deputy issuing the same shall ask the applicant or
applicants whether he, she or they have read and understand
the requirements and conditions of the law relating to the grant-
ing of said license and to the sales of said liquors thereunder,
and if such applicant or applicants answer yes. then the Clerk
or his deputy acting in the particular case shall issue the license
and shall sign his name upon the margin of the same so that
he may thereafter be able to identify his said signature; but
if such applicant or applicants shall answer that they have not
read or do not understand said requirements and conditions of
the law, the Clerk or his acting deputy shall not issue such
license and shall continue to decline to issue the same until the