The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1902-10-18

State to prove that such person, house.
company, association or body corporate on
trial has or have paid ff such be the case)
a special tax to the Government of the
United States under the internal revenue
laws thereof, upon or for his or its business
as brewers or retail dealers in liquors. or
wholesale dealers in liquors, or retail deal
ers in malt liquors, as the case may he in
Cecil County, for Il period of time within
which such violation has occurred, and to
prove that he or it has or have registered
his or its business for said period as such
dealers, with the collector of Internal reve-
nue. for the district of which Cecil County
shall form Il part, and that he or it made
application to said collector to be so regis
tered: and it shall be lawful for the State in
such case to offer in evidence said internal
revenue laws relating to said special taxes:
and the payment Of said special tax upon
and the registering of his or its said bust
ness may be proved by Il certificate of said
collector or any of his deputies, or by the
sworn testimony of him or any of them, aud
copy Of the application of any person.
house, company, association or body corpor.
ate for registry under said revenue laws,
made and attcstcd by said collector or any
Of his deputies, shall be prima facic proof
OF such application.
1Sj. If any druggist or pharmacist shall
violate any of the preceding sections, he
shall be liable to the SAME penalties, which
are set forth in section one hundred and
cighty-twO.
1856 One-haf Of all such fines shall hr
paid to the informcr, and the balance shall
be paid to the Board of School Commission
ers Of the county, for the use Of the public
schools therein.
1877. All prosecutions for violations of
any of the provisions of this subtitle of this
article shall he upon prC&entmcnt and in
dictment; but any justice of the peace of
the county shall have the same authority to
receive information of violations thereof
and to take rccogniHances and BAIL or to
commit, as is now exercised by justices of
the peace of the county. under the Public
General Laws of this State.
1888. In any Indictment for violation Of
the provisions of this sub title of this article
it shall not be necessary except in the case
of cider. to specify the particular kind of
liquor, which any house, person, company,
association or body corporate, battered,
sold or gave away, or solicited or received
order for the purchase of or kept deposited
or had with intent to barter sell or give
away, or that the same had been bartcred
sold or given away in violation of said pro-
visions; but it shall be sufficient If the in
dictment set forth that the travcrser barter
ed, sold or gave away, or solicited or re-
ceived orders for the purchase of, or kept
deposited, or had with intent to barter, sell
or give away sprituous or fermented liquors
or Intoxicating drinks, or with intent that
the same be bartcred, sold or given away,
in violation of said provisions.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if it shall
appear by the returns of said judges, and
the certificate of said Clerk, that a majority
of such votes have been east For License
then and in that event the following see
lions shall be added to article eight, of the
Code Of Public Local Laws, title Cecil
County," subtitle "Sales of Spirituous or
Fermented Liquors." to take effect on the
first day of December, in the year eighteen
hundred and ninety-eight.
400. No person in Cecil County shall OBJ
tain license for the sale or barter of spirit
uous or fermented liquors in any quantities
whatever except such as shall be qualified
as hereinafter provided.
40 There shall be a board of Liquor
License Commissioners of Cecil County con-
sisting of three persons who shall hold their
Office during good behavior or until their
successors are duly appointed and qualified.
In case of any vacancy occurring in said
Board by death, refusal to act, removal
from the county or otherwise, the vacancy
shall be filled by the County Commissioners
of Cecil County, and said Commissioners
shall also have the power in their discretion
to remove from Office any Commissioner for
neglect of duty or malfeasance in office
upon the petition Of any ten reputable citi-
zens of Cecil County, and proof of such
neglect of duty or malfeasance in Office sat
| isfactory to the County Commissioners, and
their decision shall be final and conclusive,
Said Commissioners shall receive the sum
| of one hundred and fifty dollars annually in
| lieu of all other compensation to be paid to
| them by the County Commissioners of Cecil
| County on or before the first day of May in
| each and every year, and it shall not be law
| full for any Commissioner to directly or in
| directly receive from any applicant fol-
| license any fee, reward or thing of value
whatsoever.
The said persons constituting said Board
| and their successors, SHALL before entering
| on the discharge of their duties. be duly
sworn in by the Clerk of the Circuit Court
| for Cecil County; they shall meet at Elkton
Maryland, as often as necessity requires
and their duties shall be such as are here.
matter defined. Robert Mackey, Charles
W. Shippers and Henry H. McFadden, OF
| Cecil County, are hereby constituted and
| appointed the Board of Liquor License
Commissioners of Cecil County.
Ali. Licenses to the hotel Keepers, not
| more than three in the Third Election dis
| trict, and not more than two in any other
| district of Cecil County. may be issued, and
| in incorporated towns of not less than
fifteen hundred popula'lOn not more thaI
one wholesale dealers license may he is
sued.
Any person in Cecil County who may keep
| a house for the reception of guests, or OF
permanent or of transient boarders, con
| tanning at least five chambers more than is
needed for his family purposes. and which
| said five or more chambers are used for the
reception of guests, or permanent or tran.
sient boarders, containing therein for use
at all times at least five good beds with
sufficient covering therefor, and having
stabling sufficient for the accommodation OF
six or more horses, shall be deemed a hotel
| keeper within the meaning of this Act.
| Any person who shall keep store o,
house for the sale or barter of sprtuous OF
fermented liquors in quantities of not less
than pint, not to be drunk on the prem
Uses, shall be deemed wholesale dealer
i within the meaning of this Act.
| All A. Any person in Cecil County desir.
ing to take out u license under this Act shall
file a petition with the Board of Liquor
License Commissioners of Cecil County set.
ing forth that the applicants desire to sci
| spirItuous or fermented liquors, and shall de
scribe therein the premises to be occupied by
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