The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-02


CHAPTER 179.
AN ACT to Regulate the Sale and the Granting
of Licenses for the Sale of Spirituous and Fer
mented Liquors in Baltimore County.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted By the General Assem-
w of Maryland, That no person shall hereafter |
ell offer for sale, or keep for sale in Baltimore
county, any intoxicating liquor of any kind, |
without having obtained license therefore as
hereinafter provided but this Act shall not APP
ply to sales made by any person under provi- |
sion of law requiring him to sell personal prop
makers thereof in unbroken or original packages
and not to be drunk on the premises.
SECTION 2. AID be u enGcted. That all licenses
expire on the first day of May next ensuing the
date of their issue and shall be issued for twelve
nine. six or three months ana ZOE IN no other times
desiring to obtain license to sell spirituOus or
fermented liquors in Baltimore county shall, on
or before the first day OF April: II ne desires e.
day of July, If he desires license for nine
months; on or before the first day of October, If
he desires license for six months; on or before
the first day of January, if he desires a license
for three months, file an application, in writing
with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Balti-
more county, in which he shall state First the
name and residence of the applicant and how
long he has resided there second, that he is q
citizen of the United States, and has for two
years next preceding the filing OF such applica-
ton been bona fide resident of the State of
Maryland, and for two years next preceding the
filing of such application been bona fide resi-
apply to anyone holding liquor license in said
county at the date of the passage Of this Act);
third, the place of birth of the applicant, and If
a naturalized citizen, when and where he was
naturalized fourth, the name OF the owner OF
the premises upon which the business licensed
is to be carried on nth; that the se applicant is
of the applicants are in any manner pecuniarily
interested in the profits of any business con-
Quoted at any other place in said county, where
any spirituous or fermented liquors are sold, or
kept for sale sixth, the kind of license desired
whether to sell in quantities not less than aaint
drink, and in quantities not more tdan quart;
seventh, the particular place wbsfe the business
is to be conducted under the license applied Tor,
description eighth, that no person except the
applicant or applicants is or are in any manner
pecuniarily interested therein during the con-
tinuance of the license applied for; ninth, the
applicant or applicants has, or have not. nor has
any of them had license for the sale OF intoxi-
eating or spirituouso or fermented liquors IN this
State revoked, nor have they or any of them
been convicted of any felony or any violations
of the liquor laws of Baltimore county within
and which said application shall be verified by
the affidavit of the applicant or applicants, made
before the Clerk of said Court, to whom the ap-
plication is made; and if any knowing false
statement is made in any part OF said appl1ca-
ton, the applicant or applicants who made oath
to the said application before said Clerk, shall
be deemed guilty of the crime of perjury, and
upon indictment and conviction. shall be pun
ished accordingly, and any license issued upon
SECTION 4. And be 1t enacted, That there shall
be annexed to said application certificate sign
ed by at least ten reputable taxpayers, bona f1de
residents of the neighborhood in which the APP
plicant or applicants propose to conduct bust
ness under the license applied for, In when Ine
person certifying shall each state his. or her
place of residence or place of business; that he
or she is over twenty-one years OF age; now
long he or she has known the applicant or appll-
cants that he or she believes the statements
contained in the applications to be true. That
from his or her knowledge of the applicant, or
applicants and his or her acquaintance with
him or them, he or she believes the applicant or
applicants is or are proper person or persons
to have the privilege of selling spir1tuous or
fermented liquors, and he or she accordingly
recommends the issuing OF the license applied
for; but where person signs more than one
application and license has actually been issued
under one of such applications, his name shall
not be considered on the other applications, and
as to them, his signature shall be treated as a
nullity and disregarded by the Court, and in
cases where person has signed more than one
application and 10 license has been issued as
above mentioned, the Court shall decide upon
which application his name shall be considered,
and when the Court shall have determined, the
application upon which his name shall be con-
sfdered, his signature upon others shall be dis
regarded, it being the intent of this Act that no
person shall validly sign more than one appIca,
ton but this shall not apply to dealers who sell
in quantities not less than pint and not TO be
drunk on the premises.
filing of such application and certificate, the APP
plcant or applicants shall pay to the Clerk with
whom the same are filed, the sum of two dollars,
to be applied to paying the expense of adver-
Using as hereafter provided for, and thereupon
said Clerk shall, upon the first day of April, II
such license is for twelve months; upon the
first day of July, if such license is for nine
months upon the first day of October, IL such
license is for six months, or upon the first day
of January, if such license is for three months.
publish notice in some newspaper published
In said county for two successive weeks, giving
notice that the applicant or applicants have
filed such application, specifying the KIND or
license applied for, and the place where the bust
ness is to be conducted, and stating that unless
cause to the contrary is shown ip griting on 81
the license applied for VIII % lssueg, ans N ff
can't or applicants have complied with the re-
reasons against the granting of the license shall
be received by the Clerk, or considered by the
Court filed, after the dates above named ; and if
it be impracticable for the Clerk to give the no.
tices upon the dates specified, he shall give said
notices as soon thereafter as possible.
SECTION 6. And be it enacted, That if any per
son residing in the neighborhood in Baltimore
county of the premises for which the license is
applied for, on or before the dates mentioned in
the preceding section, shall file in writing with
the Clerk of said Court any reason why the Ii
cense applied for should not be granted, such
Clerk shall forthwith present the application
and certificate and objections to Judge of the
Circuit Court for said county, and such Judge
Shall proceed to hear and determine the cues
ton upon the testimony only Of witnesses re-
which the license is applied for (this provision
not to apply to any officer of the law as to
whether the license applied for shall be issued
or notJ after giving such notice to the APPLICANT
or applicants, and objector or DIRECTORS, as such
Judge shall deem reasonable; and if upon said
hearing it be proved upon the testimony of wit
nesses residing in said neghborhood or upon
testimony of officers of the law to the satsfac-
ton of the Court, or the Judge thereof. that the
applicant or applicants, has knowingly permit
ted gambling upon his, her or its premises or
has knowingly sold to minors, or has knowingly
sold or permitted spirituous, fermented or in
n Turr lnuro
or sold on Sunday or election day other than
primary election days, no license shall be grant
ed, and his, her or it's application shall be re-
fused, or the Court, for any other reason as dis
closed by proof, may refuse to grant the license
applied for; and in all cases where the appli-
misled as to the qualification Of a signer or sign
ers to his application, as such qualification has
been defined by this Act, the Court or the Judge
him to substitute other signers in the place and
stead of those disqualified, in case the license
would be otherwise granted.
SECTION z. And De IL enacted, That the Clerk
in giving the notice required by Section Five of
this Act, shall embrace in one notice all the
names of all the persons whose applications
shall have been filed at the time of giving such
notice, separating them only so far as to make
such notice easily ineligible to the public and
IT either OF the days for the giving of said notice
snail De Sunday, then such notice shall be given
as soon thereafter as possible, SO as to secure
two weekly insertions of such notice in q news
paper published in said county before the time
fixed for cause to be shown against the issuance
of the license applied for.
SECTION 8. And be IL enacted, That the Clerk
of the Court who receives the said application,
and afidavits, shall file and carefully
preserve the same, and after giving said notice,
II no cause be shown as herein provided and
within the time specified herein, and in cases in
which the objections shall be overruled and the |
license granted, shall issue to the applicant or
applicants the license applied for upon receiv-
ing from the applicant or applicants the folow-sI
Ing sums or license fees, viz If the license is |
for twelve months and to sell spirituous or fer
mented liquors, or both, by the drink, or in |
quantities not more than a quart. the sum of |
four hundred dollars If the license is for twelve
months, and to sell spirtuous and fermented
liquors in quantities not less than pint and not
20 be drunk on the premises. the said Clerk /
hall inquire of the applicant under oath by !
'uch Clerk administered, as to the value of the.i
'tock OF spirtuous or fermented liquors intend
ID to be kept on hand in the business he pro- |
POSES to conduct under the license applied for. |
ind If it shall appear from the statement then |
made under oath that the value of the appli- |
,ant's stock of spirtuous or fermented liquors |
will not exceed one thousand dollars the license
ZEE shall be four hundred dollars if more than |
me thousand dollars and not exceeding two |
thousand dollars, the license fee shall be four |
hundred and fifty dollars if more than two |
thousand dollars, the license fee shall be five |
hundred dollars.
SECTION Q. And be ii enacted, That if the |
license applied for shall be for nine six or three
months, then the license fee shall be for three
ourths, one-half or one fourth of the amounts
everally specified for the twelve months licen-
es enumerated in the preceding section.
SECTION 10. And be 1t enacted That no person
aving license under the provisions of this Act |
hall sell or rive AWAY aTlv anirffuoun for |