J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                          1203

beverages or for the prevention of gambling in the State of Mary-
land;

(10)   A statement that the applicant has a pecuniary interest in
the business to be conducted under said license;

(11)   A statement that the applicant has not had a license for
the sale of alcoholic beverages revoked;

(12)   A statement that the applicant, or person on behalf of
whom the application is filed, is not pecuniarily interested in any
other place of business in said county or City of Baltimore where
or for which a license has been applied for, granted or issued under
this article, except as otherwise permitted in this article;

(13)   A statement as to whether the applicant has ever been ad-
judged guilty of any offense against the laws of the United States;

(14)   A statement as to whether the applicant has ever held a
license for the sale of alcoholic beverages, and if so, in what state
and at what location therein;

(15)   A statement that no person except the applicant is in any
way pecuniarily interested in said license or in the business to be
conducted thereunder during the continuance of the license applied
for, and a further statement that no manufacturer, brewer, dis-
tiller or wholesaler, directly or indirectly, has any financial interest
in the premises or business of the applicant and that the applicant
will not thereafter convey or grant to any such manufacturer,
brewer, distiller or wholesaler any such interest, except as otherwise
permitted in this article; and that the applicant has at the time of
making the application no indebtedness or other financial obligations
and will not thereafter incur [and] any such indebtedness or other
financial obligation, directly or indirectly, to any manufacturer,
brewer, distiller or wholesaler other than for the purchase of alco-
holic beverages;

(16)   A statement that the applicant will, if granted a license,
conform to all laws and regulations relating to the business in which
the applicant proposes to engage;

(17)   A statement duly executed and acknowledged by the owner
of the premises in which the business is to be conducted assenting
to the granting of the license applied for, and authorizing the Comp-
troller, his duly authorized deputies, inspectors and clerks, the board
of license commissioners of the county or city in which the place
of business is located, its duly authorized agents and employees,
any peace officer of such city or county, and any peace officer of
any incorporated municipality in which the business is to be con-
ducted, to inspect and search, without warrant the premises upon
which the business is to be conducted, and any and all parts of the
building in which said business is to be conducted, at any and all
hours; except that in Montgomery County, no such statement and
acknowledgment are required where the applicant for a license is
the lessee of the entire building in which the business is to be con-
ducted for the entire term of the license to be issued;

(18)   A certificate signed by at least ten citizens who shall be
owners of real estate and registered voters of the precinct in which
the business is to be conducted, setting forth the length of time