70 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 31

roast or feast or other entertainment or assemblage in Balti-
more County on the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof
shall pay a fine of not less than $200, nor more than $1, 000
or be imprisoned in jail or in the House of Correction of Mary-
land for not less than 30 days, or suffer both fine and impris-
onment, as aforesaid, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That two new and additional sections be and
the same are hereby added to the aforesaid Act, namely Chap-
ter 179 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1908, entitled,
"An Act to Regulate the Sale and the Granting of Licenses
for the Sale of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors in Balti-
more County, " to come immediately after Section 21 of Said
Act, and that said two new and additional sections so to be
added shall be known and designated, respectively, as Sections
21A and 21B of said Act and shall, respectively be and read
as follows:

21A. In addition to the powers conferred by Section 21 of
this Act, any holders of a license to sell spirituous, fermented
or intoxicating liquors at retail, may assign, hypothecate, or
pledge said license to any person, firm, association or corpora-
tion other than a brewer, brewing Company, distiller, recti-
fier or compounder or bottler of, or wholesale dealer in malted,
brewed, fermented, spirituous or intoxicating liquors of any
kind, directly or indirectly, as security for the repayment of
any debt or the performance of any obligation, and the instru-
ment so assigning, hypothecating or pledging said license shall,
upon the application of the person, firm, bank, association or
corporation whom the same shall be made, be recorded by
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County in a suit-
able book kept for that purpose, and shall return the instru-
ment to the person presenting the same, after having endorsed
thereon the facts of such recording and the day and date there-
of, the costs of such recording to be assessed by said Clerk in
the same manner as the costs of recording deeds, and such book
and records of said Clerk shall at all suitable times be open to
the inspection of the public, and shall be deemed and taken
as actual notice to all persons of the matters and facts re-
corded therein; and whenever it shall be made to appear to the
presiding Judge or Judges of the Circuit Court for Baltimore
County, upon petition duly verified by affidavit, that default
has occurred in any of the conditions set forth in said instru-