1152                                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                                     Ch. 44

boards [and Appeal Board] shall in each case, forthwith report
the same to the Comptroller. Such records shall be open to
inspection at the respective offices of the Comptroller, the
clerks, and the board of license commissioners [and the State
Appeal Board] during regular business hours, by any person.

[154.

(a) The State Appeal Board shall comprise three citizens of
the State to be appointed by the Comptroller, subject to the
approval of the Governor. The Comptroller shall designate one of
said members to be chairman of the Board. The members shall
receive $50 per diem compensation for each day spent on official
Board business as provided in the State budget, plus a mileage
allowance in accordance with the standard travel regulations when
serving on official Board business. However, each member may not
receive more than $1,000 of per diem compensation per year. The
Board shall appoint a secretary who shall receive $25 per diem
compensation for each day spent on official Board business as
provided in the State budget, plus a mileage allowance in
accordance with the standard travel regulations when serving as
the Board's secretary.]

175.

(a) The decision of the board of license commissioners for
Baltimore City and the respective counties [and of the State
Appeal Board in every county not having a local board (except in
the counties of Dorchester and Somerset, where the decision of
the State Appeal Board shall be final),] and of the mayor and
aldermen of the City of Annapolis, in approving, suspending,
revoking and restricting, or refusing to approve, suspend, revoke
or restrict any license, or licensee, shall be subject to appeal
in the following manner:

[177.

(a) In the jurisdictions in which this section is
applicable, within ten days from the date of the decision of the
board of license commissioners and upon full payment of all the
costs as hereinbefore in this subtitle provided, the decision of
the boards of license commissioners in approving, suspending,
revoking or restricting or refusing to approve, suspend, revoke
or restrict any license, shall be subject to appeal to the State
Appeal Board, by the applicant for any license, the licensee, or
not less than ten citizens, voters and real estate owners,
residing in the precinct or voting district in which the place of
business is located or proposed to be located. Upon the filing
of any such appeal, all papers and testimony produced before the
board of license commissioners shall be forwarded to the State
Appeal Board within thirty days thereof upon the payment by the
appellant or appellants, of all costs incident to the hearing
before the board of license commissioners. Every such appeal
shall be heard by all the State Appeal Board de novo; but said
Appeal Board shall consider all the papers and testimony produced