490 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 484
CHAPTER 484.
(House Bill 785)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, paragraphs
A and D of Section 6 of Article 2B of the 1943 Supplement
to the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Alcoholic Bever-
ages", sub-title "Beer, Wine and Liquor License'', as amended
by Chapter 202 of the Laws of 1945, providing for Class A
"Off Sale", Beer, Wine and Liquor Licenses, and increasing
the fees for Class D "On Sale", Beer, Wine and Liquor
Licensesvin 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", as amended by Chapter 202 of the Laws of 1945, be
and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

6.

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 authorize
the holder thereof to keep for sale and to sell all alcoholic bev-
erages at retail, in any quantity, at the place therein described,
and to deliver the same in a sealed package or container, which
package or container shall not be opened nor its contents con-
sumed on the premises where sold. The annual fee for such a
license shall be Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250. 00), ex-
cept in Prince George's County, where the fee shall be One
Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150. 00); in Washington County,
where the fee shall be One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150. 0);
in Calvert County, where the fee shall be One Hundred and
Twenty-five Dollars ($125. 00); in Howard County, where the
fee shall be Four Hundred Dollars ($400. 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 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 appli-
cant is the assignees of a business established for said length