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week in some newspaper or newspapers published or gen-
erally circulated in the community in which the licensed
establishment is proposed to be located.

On or before the expiration of said period of one week
any ten or more reputable citizens, voters and taxpayers
residing in the election district in which the business
sought to be licensed is to be carried on, may file with the
Clerk written objections to the granting of such license on
the ground that the same is not necessary for the accom-
modation of the public, or that the applicant is not a fit
person to receive such license, or has made a false state-
ment in his application or has violated some law of the
State or of the United States, or that fraud has been prac-
tised in the application for such license.

If such objections are filed, then the application, the ob-
jections and any other papers or documents appertaining
thereto shall be forthwith transmitted by the Clerk of the
Court to the Bureau of State Licenses, which, for the pur-
pose of administering this Act, shall comprise the Chief
Inspector, provided for by Section 7 of Article 56 of the
Annotated Code, and not more than two assistants to be
appointed by the Comptroller, subject only to the approval
of the Governor, and the said Bureau, after due notice to
the applicant and to the objectors, shall proceed to hear and
determine the said objections, and shall notify the Clerk of
Court of the Bureau's findings thereon. If the Bureau de-
termines that the objections are not well founded, then the
Clerk shall forthwith issue the license, but if the Bureau
finds that the objections are well founded, then the Clerk
shall refuse the same, and in either event the findings of
said Bureau shall be final.

If no written objections as aforesaid are filed with the
Clerk of Court before the expiration of the aforesaid period
of one week, then the Clerk shall forthwith issue the license
applied for.

301G. Any person who shall violate any of the pro-
visions of this Act shall, upon conviction, be punished by a
fine not exceeding five hundred ($500. 00) dollars, or im-
prisoned not exceeding six months in the House of Correc-
tion or in Jail, or both fined and imprisoned, in the discre-
tion of the Court, and in addition thereto the license issued
under the provisions of this Act to any person so convicted
shall automatically stand revoked, and the license of any
licensee who shall sell or permit the sale of any alcoholic
beverages not authorized under the terms of this Act on