The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-05-28
Public General Law.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
CHAPTER 1913.
ISSUING LICENSES.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact chapter four
hundred and thirty-nine, of the acts of eigh-
teen hundred and sevcntyfou entitled an act
to regulate the issuing of licenses for the sale
of spirituous and fermented liquors in this
State.
SECTION l. Be IL enacted By the General ASSEM-
biy Of MARYLAND, That chapter four hundred
and thirty-nine, of the acts of eighteen hundred
and seyenty-four, entitled ian act to regulate
the issuing of licenses for the sale of spirtuous
and fermented liquors in this State" be, and the
same is hereby repealed and reenacted so as to
read as follows:
SEC. l. From and after the passage of this
act 1t shall not be lawful for the Clerks of the
Circuit Courts of this State to issue any license
for the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors
or lager beer, TO any person or body polite in
inns State, unless such person or body polite
snail nave been recommended to said clerks by
the Grand Jury, which shall have been in SEES
sion at the term next preceding the first day Of
May, IN each and every year, in the county
where the applicant for such license shall re-
side; provided, however, that this act or any of
its provisions shall not apply to Baltimore city,
Frederick, Baltimore Prince Georges, Allega-
ny, Somerset, Carroll, Howard, Washington,
Wicomico, st. Mary's Hartford, Dorchester, &c.
ell and Anne Arundel counties, and provided,
nevertheless, that the Clerk ofthe Circuit Court
for Charles county is hereby authorized and en-
powered to issue license for one year, from the
first day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty,
ioI INT Snlc vi SlhfHuOuS OF leflhenlCu liquors
or lager beer in said county 10 any person APP
plying for the same, who shall file with the said
clerk, with said application, recommendation
signed by majority of those who constituted
the Grand Jury ut the November term, eighteen
hundred and seventy-nine, of said court, recon-
mending the granting of said license with an
affidavit OF the applicant attached thereto, that
the said signatures to said recommendation are
true and genuine; provided, however, that said
person applying for said license shall have been
engaged IN the sale OF such liquors at the time
OF the November term of said Court; and. pro-
vided, also, that he shall not have been refused
such license by said Grand Jury at said Noycm-
Der term of Court, eighteen hundred and seven
tynino
SEC. 2. And be it enacted That all acts and
parts of acts inconsistent with this act, be, and
the same are hereby repealed
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That none of the
proceedings and recommendations heretofore
mad and made, under the provisions of the acts
OF eighteen hundred and seventy four chapter
four hundred and thirty-ninc, shall be in any
manner affected by this repeal and rc-enactment
OF the same.
SEC. 1, And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
HIRAM MCCULLOUGH,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
HERMAN STUMP, JR.,
President of the Senate.
Approved April IA, 1880
VIM. r. HAMILTON,
Governor OF Maryland
We hereby certify that the afOregoing is a
correct copy of an act of the General Assembly
OF Maryland, passed at the January session,
1880
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk Of the House Of Delegates.
EUGENE HIGGINS,
myl4 Secretary of The Senate