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(h-2) (H-1) (v) It shall be the duty of the Garrett County Board
of License Commissioners LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD before is-
suing any license hereunder to determine whether the business to be
operated by the prospective licensee is likely to enhance the recrea-
tional, business and economic development of the county. If the Board
of License Commissioners LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD in its dis-
cretion determines that the issuance of such a license will not enhance
such development within the county, it shall reject the application for
such license.

Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved April 14, 1967.

CHAPTER 289
(House Bill 772)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 70 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Garrett County (1957 Edition, being
Article 12 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title
"County Commissioners," to raise the salary of the Clerk of the
County Commissioners of Garrett County from three thousand
six hundred dollars to five thousand dollars AND TO REMOVE
THE PROVISIONS LIMITING ADDITIONAL HELP FOR THE
CLERK AND PRESCRIBING HOURS THE OFFICE OF THE
CLERK SHOULD REMAIN OPEN.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 70 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Garrett County
(1957 Edition, being Article 12 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland), title "County Commissioners," be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

70.

The County Commissioners shall appoint a Clerk who shall hold
his office for two years from the date of his appointment and until
the qualification of his successor. He shall be subject to removal
from said office for inefficiency or for any willful neglect of duty or
misbehavior in office, at any time, by said County Commissioners
who shall have power to appoint some competent person for the
unexpired term of said Clerk so removed, and said County Com-
missioners shall be the sole judge as to the inefficiency or willful
neglect of duty or misbehavior of said Clerk. Said Clerk, before
entering upon the duties of his office, shall give bond to the State of
Maryland in the penalty of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), to be
approved by the County Commissioners, conditioned for the faithful
performance of the duties of his office, which bond shall be recorded
in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Garrett County, and
shall take and subscribe, before one of the County Commissioners,
an oath that he will honestly and faithfully, to the best of his skill
and judgment, execute the duties of said office. The said Clerk shall