HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                     1153

before the said boards. The noting of an appeal and payment of
said costs shall stay the order of the board pending the
determination of the appeal. It shall be the duty of the State
Appeal Board to hear and determine all such appeals within thirty
days from the date of the receipt of the papers and testimony
from the board originally hearing the application, complaint or
charges, and if the decision appealed from is reversed, the costs
paid by the appellants shall be recoverable by the appellants
from the appellees, in a civil action, and failure of the Appeal
Board to determine the appeal within a period of thirty days,
after the record has been filed as above provided, shall be
considered an automatic affirmance of the local board's decision
unless the time has been extended by the Appeal Board for a good
cause shown.

(b) This section shall be applicable in Dorchester and
Somerset counties.]

184.

(a) In addition to the powers otherwise provided by this
article, the Comptroller[,] AND the board of license
commissioners from any county or Baltimore City [or the State
Appeal Board shall], respectively, have full power and authority
to adopt such reasonable rules and regulations as they may deem
necessary to enable them effectively to discharge the duties
imposed upon them by this article.

193.

For the purpose of all hearings and inquiries which the
Comptroller[,] OR the board of license commissioners for any
county [, or the State Appeal Board are] IS authorized to hold
and make, the official, boards [and Appeal Board], and the
respective members thereof, are authorized to issue summons for
witnesses, and to administer to them oaths or affirmations, and
all summonses so issued shall be served by the police department
of the City of Baltimore or by the sheriff of any of the
counties. If any witness so summoned shall refuse or neglect to
attend, or attending, refuse to testify, the official issuing the
summons shall report the facts to the circuit court for the
county, and the court is hereby authorized and directed to
proceed by attachment against the witness in all respects as if
neglect or refusal had been by a witness summoned to appear in
the court in a case pending before it. In Anne Arundel County,
Prince George's County, Carroll County, Baltimore County,
Baltimore City, and Howard County, and Worcester County the
boards of license commissioners are also authorized to subpoena
any records or papers pertaining to a licensed business or
establishment. If any witness shall refuse to produce any records
or papers so subpoenaed the board shall report the fact to the
circuit court for the county, and the court is hereby authorized
and directed to proceed by attachment against the witness in all
respects as if the refusal had been by a witness summoned to
appear in the court in a case pending before it.