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License to sell
spirituous or
fermented li-
quors less than
a pint.
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SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That from and after
the first day of May next when any person or per-
sons, body or bodies corporate, shall desire or pur-
pose to open or keep an ordinary in which spiri-
tuous or fermented liquors or lager beer may be
sold or bartered in quantities less than a pint at
any one time, it shall be the duty of such person
or persons, body or bodies corporate, to apply
to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county
in which said applicant may reside, or if said
applicant shall reside in the city of Baltimore
then to the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
of Baltimore, for a license therefor, and the said
license shall be granted upon the following terms :
the said applicant shall be recommended to the
clerk by two respectable freeholders of his imme-
diate vicinity, and shall make oath or affirmation,
to be by said clerk administered, that he has
bona fide, and without intending to evade the re-
quirements of this act, provided and expects to
maintain six good beds, with sufficient covering
therefor, and three rooms more than sufficient for
the private uses of said ordinary keeper, with
stabling and provender for five horses at least,
and if said applicant reside in the city of Balti-
more, that he has provided and expects to main-
tain as aforesaid twelve good beds, with covering
as aforesaid, and six rooms; and if said applicant
shall first be recommended; and make oath as
aforesaid, then the said applicant shall state to
said clerk on oath or affirmation, to be by said
clerk administered, the rate of rent or annual
value of the house or place at or in which the
business to be authorised by the license may be
done or intended to be done, and if it shall appear
that the rate of rent or annual value of said
house or place, does not or shall not exceed one
hundred dollars, then it shall be the duty of said
clerk before granting said license to demand and
receive therefor the sum of twenty-five dollars ;
and if it shall appear from such statements that
such rate of rent or annual value of said house
or place does or shall exceed one hundred dollars
and shall not exceed two hundred dollars, then it
shall be the duty of said clerk before granting
such license to demand and receive therefor the
sum of forty dollars; and if it shall appear that
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