HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 161

to the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Alcoholic Bever-
ages", sub-title "Beer, Wine and Liquor License", providing
for Class A "Off Sale", Beer, Wine and Liquor Licenses, and
increasing the fees for Class D "On Sale", Beer, Wine and
Liquor Licenses in Howard County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That paragraphs A and D of Section 6 of Article
2B of the 1943 Supplement to the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Alcoholic Beverages", sub-title "Beer, Wine
and Liquor License", be and they are hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

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A. (Beer, Wine and Liquor License, Class A (Off Sale). )
Such a license shall be issued by the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of the County in which the place of business is located, or by
the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Baltimore City,
if the place of business is located in said city, and shall author-
ize the holder thereof to keep for sale and to sell all alcoholic
beverages at retail, in any quantity, at the place therein de-
scribed, and to deliver the same in a sealed package or con-
tainer which package or container shall not be opened nor its
contents consumed on the premises where sold. The annual
fee for such a license shall be Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars
($250. 00), except in Prince George's County, where the fee
shall be One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150. 00); in Wash-
ington County, where the fee shall be One Hundred and Fifty
Dollars ($150. 00); in Calvert County, where the fee shall be
One Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($125. 00), in Howard
County, where the fee shall be. Three Hundred and Fifty Dol-
lars ($350. 00), and in Charles County, where the fee shall be
One Hundred Dollars ($100. 00), and shall be payable to said
Clerk, before any such license is issued, for distribution as
hereinafter provided.

Such license shall be issued only in Baltimore City, Balti-
more, Calvert, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Howard, Prince George's
and Washington Counties, but no such license shall be issued
for any drug store unless the applicant has been doing busi-
ness at the location applied for, for at least one year prior
to the date of the application for such a license, or unless
the applicant is the assignee of a business established for
said length of time at the location applied for, or has been
actually engaged in the retail drug business for a period of
not less than three years. In Carroll County no such license
shall be issued for any place of business located outside of
the corporate limits of Westminster, the county seat, and in
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