486 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 481

($250. 00), except in Prince George's County, where the fee
shall be One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150. 00); in Balti-
more County, where the fee shall be Five Hundred Dollars
($500. 00); in Washington 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), 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 herein-
after provided.

Such license shall be issued only in Baltimore City, Balti-
more, Calvert, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Prince George's and
Washington Counties, but no such license shall be issued for
any drug store unless the applicant has been doing business 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 Talbot County no such
license shall be issued except to grocery stores, drug stores,
incorporated clubs, restaurants and hotels who have been doing
business in Talbot County for more than one year prior to the
date of the application for such license, and such a license may
also be issued in the City of Annapolis upon the approval of
and for such fee as may be fixed by the Mayor, Counsellor and
Aldermen of the City of Annapolis, and in Cecil and Kent
Counties no such license shall be issued except to retail drug-
gists and grocers who have conducted such business at least
one year prior to application for such license.

The hours during which the privileges conferred by such
license may be exercised shall be in Baltimore City, Baltimore,
Calvert, Charles, Washington and Prince George's Counties,
from 6 A. M. to 12 o'clock midnight; in Carroll County from
8 A. M. to 9 P. M. and in Cecil and Kent Counties from 6 A. M.
to 11 P. M., but no holder of such license shall be permitted to
make any sale on Sunday or on any day of any general, special
or primary election. In the City of Annapolis the hours shall
be fixed by the Mayor, the Counsellor and Aldermen of the
City of Annapolis. In Talbot County, the hours shall be from
8 A. M. to 12 o'clock midnight.

SEC. 2. And l>e it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety and having
been passed upon by yea and nay vote, supported by three-
fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of