ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 603

by any sueh applicant with regard to any of the matters stated
or required to be stated in said application or in any part
thereof, the applicant or applicants who made oath to said
application before said Clerk shall be deemed guilty of the
crime of perjury, and upon indictment and conviction shall
be punished as the laws of Maryland require that crime to be
punished; aid each of the statements above required to be
made in said application is hereby declared to be a material
and essential condition upon which said license is applied for,
issued and granted, and if at any time it shall appear or be
made to appear to the presiding Judge or Judges of the Cir-
cuit Court for Baltimore County that any false statement
contained in said application has been knowingly made upon
the part of the applicant or any applicant therein, any license
issued upon such application shall be revoked, annulled and
suppressed.

The form 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 re-
quired.

336. 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 pay-
ing the expense of advertising as hereafter provided for,
and thereupon such Clerk shall, upon the first day of Decem-
ber if such license is for twelve months, or upon the first day
of March, if such license is for nine months; or upon the
first day of June 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 appli-
cants have filed such application, specifying the kind of license
applied for, and the place where the business is to be con-
ducted, and stating that unless cause to the contrary is shown
in writing on or before the fifteenth day of December. March
or June next ensuing, as the case may be, the license applied,
for, if approved and directed to be issued by the Court, will
be issued; and if the Circuit Court shall approve and order
the granting and issuing of such license to the applicant or
applicants, it shall be the duty of the Clerk to issue the license,
provided always, that the applicant or applicants have com-
plied with the requirements of this Act. If it be impractic-
able for the Clerk to give the notice aforesaid upon the date