HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 739

title "Boards of License Commissioners", be and it 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repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows: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 Montgomery County) in approving, suspending, revok-
ing or restricting or refusing to approve, suspend, revoke or
restrict 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 Commis-
sioners. 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 cost
paid by the appellants shall be recoverable by the appellants
from the appellees in a civil action.

Any applicant for a license, licensee, or duly qualified pro-
testant aggrieved by any decision of the Liquor Control Board
for Montgomery County may appeal within ten days from the
date of the decision to the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County. Such appeal shall be instituted by filing in said Court
a petition, a copy of which shall be served upon the Board and
any other party to the cause before the Board. The Board
shall certify and file in the Court a complete transcript of the
record upon which the order complained of was entered upon
the payment by the appellant to the Board of the costs inci-
dent to the hearing before the Board. The Board may by rule
or regulation fix a minimum appeal fee and such fee or costs