The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-07-08

issued; and any applicant for such H.
cense shall specify the particular place
where he proposes to offer said spirit
uous or fermented liquors for sale,
and all of such bona fide male resi-
dents within said distance who are
opposed to the issuance of license
shall register their opposition thereto
by petition against the same to the
Mayor.
And to ascertain who are within
three hundred feet of the place in which
it is proposed to sell any spirituous
or fermented liquors, measurments
shall be made by starting from the
center of the main entrance door in
the building or room in which it is
proposed to sell said liquors and from
that point in the most direct line
along or across public thoroughfare
to the premises of any such resident
said to be within said distance, and
from such point in straight line to
the dwelling house Of any such resi-
dent, which said measurements shall
be made by the Treasurer of the said
town of Laurel, and by him handed to
the Mayor of said town on or before
April oath of each year, but such
measurements shall not be made more
than ten days prior to May first in
any year, and any one intending to
make such application shall notify the
Mayor in writing on or before April
(20th) twentieth of such intention,
when it shall be the duty of the May
or of said town to instruct the said
Treasurer to make said measurements
provided shat in the event of any one
desiring to secure a license at any
time after the first day of May in any
year, said measurements shall be made
by the said Treasurer in the manner
hereinbefore prescribed, not more than
five days notice to the said Mayer
of an intention to make such applica-
ton.
Sec. I. That the Mayor of the said
town of Laurel shall on or before the
the 9th day of April in each and ev-
cry year, issue certificate to each ap-
plicant for a license that the facts
stated in said application he verify
believes to be true, unless the same be
shown to be untrue; and upon said GER
tiicate, the said application and the
certificate required under section six
of this act being filed with the Clerk
of the Circuit Court ror Prince
Georges county together with a re-
ceipt from the Treasurer of the town
of Laurel for the sum of three hun
dred and fifty dollars for one year or a
proportionate part thereof for any less
time, which shall be the amount paid
for the use of the town of Laurel be-
fore any license shall be applied for to
the Clerk OF the said Circuit Court
under the provisions of this Act, the
said Clerk shall issue to the said ap.
plicant, if all the conditions of this Act
appear to have been complied with,
license for a period not longer than
twelve months, upon receiving from
said applicant the following sum or
license fee; If the license be for twelve
months and to sell spirituous or fer
mented liquors the sum of one hundred
dollars, for the County Commissioners
of said county for public roads, if is-
sued for shorter period, the license
shall pay for every month or fractional
part of month for which his, her,
their or it's license are to run one
Twelfth of the annual charge for such
license in addition to the amount re-
quired to be paid to the State of Mary
land, and all such licenses shall expire
at the expiration Of the time designat'
ed, and no liuense so granted shall be
transferable to any other person or
persons,or to conduct the said business
at or in any other house, messuage or
tenement, without the transferee CON-
plying with all the provisions of this
Act, as though the transferec was an
original applicant.
Sec. 10 That no person, house,
company, corporation or association
who shall obtain a license under the
provisions of this Act shall sell or fur
nisn Intoxicating, spirituous or fer
mented liquors OF any kind, at any
time to minor, either for his or her
own use, or for the use of any other
person, or to drunkard, or to any
one then under the influence of liquor,
or at any place within two hundred
feet of any church in an air line, meas
uring from any point of the building
or room in which the same is kept for
sale, or within three hundred feet from