WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1311

Article, to be under the sub-title "General Provisions on Issue
of Licenses", and to read as follows:

GENERAL PROVISIONS ON ISSUE OF LICENSES.

40A. (Frederick County. ) (a) In Frederick County there
shall not be issued more than one Class B On Sale Beer Li-
cense, nor more than one Class B On Sale Beer and Light
Wine License, for each unit of five hundred people, or major
fraction thereof, in any one election district. There shall not be
issued more than one Class A Off Sale Beer, Wine and Liquor
License for each unit of fifteen hundred population, or major
fraction thereof, in any one election district. For the purposes
of this section, the population of each election district shall be
as determined by the last Federal census, except in those dis-
tricts where, in the opinion of the Commissioner, there has
been an obvious change in population since the last Federal
census, in which case, the Commissioner shall, on application,
hold a public hearing to determine the approximate change
in population in such district since the last Federal census.

(b) In any election district in which the number of any
class of licenses issued as of June 1, 1949, exceeds the quota
specified hereinabove, no new licenses of such class shall be
issued unless and until the number of licenses of any such
class shall have been so reduced by revocation or surrender
as to create a vacancy under the particular quota specified
hereinabove. For the purposes of this section, a transfer or
renewal of an existing license shall in no way be construed
to be a new license.

SEC. 2. And be> it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1949.

Approved April 29, 1949.

CHAPTER 556
(House Bill 401)

AN ACT to incorporate the Town of Libertytown in Frederick
County, providing for the powers, duty and government of
said Town, for the election of officers thereof and generally
for the municipal powers of said Town and submitting this
Act to a referendum of the voters thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land,, That the following sections be and the same are hereby