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be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

143.

(c) Harford County.—In Harford County no retail license which
has been previously refused, suspended or revoked, shall be granted
until the applicant shall have executed a bond to the State of Maryland
in the penal sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000), with a corporate
surety to be approved by the liquor control board of Harford County,
conditioned upon the faithful observance of all the laws of this State,
general or local, and the regulations of said board, controlling or
affecting the sale of alcoholic beverages, and to pay all costs, fines and
penalties which may be imposed upon the applicant, on any warrant
or indictment for violation of this article or any other act of Assem-
bly or regulation of the board relating to selling or furnishing alco-
holic beverages in Harford County, and the said bond when so
approved shall be deposited with the said board, which shall record
the same in a book to be kept for that purpose, and the record thereof,
or a duly certified copy, shall be evidence in any court of record. If
this bond has been provided for one calendar year and the liquor
control board finds that the licensee has complied faithfully with the
terms thereof, then thereafter the liquor control board may in its
discretion waive the requirements of posting bond under this section.
In lieu of the foregoing bond, the liquor control board of Harford
County may, in its discretion, accept one thousand ($1,000) cash
money, the deposit of the same to be deposited, conditioned, recorded
and, if deemed advisable, waived as aforesaid; the board may also, in
its discretion, subsequently accept a bond as aforesaid in substitution
of the cash money deposit.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved March 23, 1961.

CHAPTER 167
(House Bill 126)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 6 (b)
and (c) of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957
Edition and 1960 Supplement), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-
title "Civil Jurisdiction", to increase the civil jurisdiction of Trial
Magistrates in Garrett County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 6 (b) and (c) of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1957 Edition and 1960 Supplement), title "Justices of the
Peace", sub-title "Civil Jurisdiction", be and they are hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows :

6.

(b) Two hundred dollars in certain counties.—Trial magistrates of
[Garrett and Somerset counties] Somerset County shall have civil