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ment, hypothecation or pledge, and the licensee refuses to de-
liver the license to the person, firm, bank, association or cor-
poration thereby entitled to the same, the said Judge or
Judges shall have power, after such hearing as they may deem
advisable, to revoke the original license and issue a duplicate
license in lieu thereof, and upon so receiving said duplicate
license the said assignee or pledgee shall have the right to re-
hypothecate, cancel or redeem said license, but shall have no
further or other rights thereunder unless and until the provi-
sions of this Act relating to original grants or transfers of
licenses have been complied with; provided, however, that
nothing in this section contained shall prevent any licensee
who shall have assigned, hypothecated or pledged a license
under the provisions of this section from prosecuting the busi-
ness for which said license was granted until the same shall
have been revoked by said Judge or Judges under the provi-
sions of this section; and provided further that nothing in this
section contained shall prevent the issuing of duplicate licenses
under the provisions of this section to any person, firm, bank,
association or corporation whatsoever, except a brewer, brew-
ing company, distiller, rectifier or compounder or bottler of,
or a wholesale dealer in, malted, brewed, fermented, spirituous
or intoxicating liquors of any kind; provided also, that no
license thus assigned, hypothecated or pledged, nor duplicate
license thus issued, shall be used or disposed of by any trans-
feree or assignee, except for rehypothecation, cancellation or
redemption, without complying with the provisions of Section
21 of this Act,

21B. Any holder of a license to sell spirituous, fermented
or intoxicating liquors at retail, against whom no indictment
or information is pending for the violation of any provision of
this Act, and who shall not have been convicted for any such
violation during the year for which his license was issued,
who shall cease to traffic in such liquors during the term for
which such license was issued and who shall surrender such
license to the presiding Judge or Judges of the Circuit Court
for Baltimore County, and who shall at the same time file with
the said Judge or Judges a petition in such general form as
the said Judge or Judges may prescribe, duly sworn to before
a Notary Public or Justice of the Peace, asking to have the
license marked "Cancelled, " shall be entitled to have the
amount paid for such license refunded pro rata for the unex-
pired portion of the term for which such license was granted,