474 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 301

Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Alcoholic Beverages",
sub-title uCounty Dispensaries", be and they are hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

72. (Liquor Control Board. ) In Somerset County, there
shall be a Liquor Control Board consisting of three members
and B. Horace Ford, C. Wilson Waters and Wm. J. Hall shall
constitute the first board, who shall serve until June 1, 1943,
and their successors shall be appointed by the Governor for a
term of four years. The board shall organize by electing its
own chairman. In case of a vacancy, the vacancy shall be
filled by the Governor for the unexpired term. The members
of said Board shall receive as compensation Five Hundred
Dollars ($500. 00) per annum and the said Board shall hold
meetings at least twice a month and oftener, if necessary.

The said Board shall have full power and authority to estab-
lish and maintain at Crisfield and Princess Anne, stores to
be known as "Somerset County Liquor Dispensaries", for the
sale of any sparkling or fortified wine and any other alcoholic
beverages containing more than fourteen percentum of alco-
hol by volume, in sealed packages or containers, which pack-
ages or containers shall not be opened nor their contents con-
sumed upon the premises where sold. For the purpose of
establishing and operating such dispensaries, the Board of
County Commissioners of Somerset County is hereby author-
ized and directed to advance, from time to time, to the Liquor
Control Board, such sum or sums of money, not exceeding
Five Thousand Dollars ($5, 000. 00), as may be necessary to
provide adequate working capital for said Liquor Control
Board, and the said Board of County Commissioners is hereby
authorized and empowered to borrow, upon the credit of said
county, such sum or sums as may be necessary to meet such
advances, and the said Liquor Control Board shall also be au-
thorized to borrow money, from time to time, upon the credit
of said Board, from any banking institution; provided, how-
ever, that the aggregate sum advanced to or borrowed by the
Liquor Control Board shall at no time exceed the sum of Five
Thousand Dollars ($5, 000. 00). All sums advanced to the
Liquor Control Board by the County Commissioners, and all
sums borrowed by the County Commissioners or the Liquor
Control Board shall bear interest not exceeding six per centum
per annum, and shall be repaid, together with the interest
thereon, out of the receipts from sales made at the County
Liquor Dispensaries or branch dispensaries.

The Liquor Control Board shall have full power and au-
thority:

(1) To appoint such employees as may be necessary to con-
duct such County Liquor Dispensaries or branch dispensaries,