HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1193

Edition), title "Alcoholic Beverages", sub-title "Appeals",
providing for appeal from decisions of the Board of License
Commissioners for Baltimore County to the Circuit Court
for said county, and setting out the procedure in such ap-
peals.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 63 of Article 2B of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Alcoholic Beverages", sub-
title "Appeals", be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

63. Appeals. The decision of the Boards of License Com-
missioners for Baltimore City and of the respective counties,
except Baltimore County, in approving, suspending, revoking
or restricting or refusing to approve, suspend, revoke or re-
strict any license, shall be subject to appeal to the State
License Bureau by the applicant for any license, the licensee
or not less than ten citizens, voters and real estate owners
residing in the precinct or voting district in which the place
of business is located or proposed to be located. Upon the
filing of any such appeal, all papers and testimony produced
before the Board of License Commissioners shall be forwarded
to the State License Bureau within sixty days thereof upon
the payment by the appellant or appellants, of all costs inci-
dent to the hearing before the Board of License Commission-
ers. Every such appeal shall be heard by the State License
Bureau de novo. The action of the Board shall be final and
effective at once, provided, however, that any party aggrieved
by said action of the Board may within ten days from the
date of the decision of the Board appeal from the action of
the Board to the State License Bureau upon full payment of
all costs of the proceedings as hereinafter provided; and that
noting of such appeal and payment of said costs shall stay
the order of the Board pending the determination of the ap-
peal. The said Board shall not be required to forward any
such papers or transcribe any such testimony until the ap-
pellant has paid or secured to be paid all costs incident to
the hearing. It shall be the duty of the State License Bureau
to hear and determine all such appeals within thirty days
from the date of the receipt of the papers and testimony from
the Board originally hearing the application, complaint or
charges, and if the decision appealed from is reversed the cots
paid by the appellants shall be recoverable by the appellants
from the appellees, in a civil action. Any applicant for a
license, licensee, or protestant aggrieved by any decision of
the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore County may
appeal within ten days from the date of the decision to the
Circuit Court for Baltimore County. Such appeal shall be