The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-03-27
THE HIGH LICENSE LAW
ALL LICENSES HEREAFTER TO COST
$500 In WESTMINSTER.
Stringent Regulations as to Conduct OF
Saloons and Hotels.
A BILL


Sec54 of said Article Z, under the new
subtitle of Intoxicating Liquors, to
be designated as Sec. 81 to Sec. 81
(both' inclusive) to regulate the sale
and the granting of licenses for the
sale of spirituous and fermented liq-
uors in Carroll County"
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly of Maryland, that Ar
ticle Z, of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title Carroll County" be and
the same is hereby amended by adding
twenty new sections thereto under the
new subtitle of Intoxicating LiQ-
uors," to follow after Sec. 54, to be
designated Sec. 50 A to Sec. 81 T.,
both inclusive and to read as follows:
Sec. 81 A. No person shall here
after sell, offer, or keep for sale, in
Carroll county, State of Maryland, any
spirituous or fermented liquors of any
kind whatsoever without having pre-
viously obtained license therefor as
hereinafter provided but this act shall
not apply to a sale or sales made by
any person under provision of law
requiring him to sell personal prop
erty, or to sale of cider or native
wines by the maker thereof, and not
suffered to be drunk on his premises.
Sec. 81 B. ALI licenses to sell spir-
itous and fermented liquors shall ex-
pire on the first day of May next en-
suing the date of their issue, and shall
be issued for twelve or any less num-
Der of months, but for no fractional
part of month.
Sec. "a C. No license shall be is
sued to any person or persons to sell
spirituous or fermented liquors in
Carroll county, aforesaid, until he or
they shall comply with the follow
ing conditions, viz: petition shall be
filed by him or them on or before the
LIST day of the month preceding the
month said license is to begin with
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said
county, addressed to said Clerk, re-
questing that such license be issued,
and said Clerk shall thereupon cause
to be published for two successive
!, weeks in a newspaper published in
said County prior to the 18th day of
the month preceding the month said
license is to begin, list of the
names of all such applicants, their
residence, and the proposed place of
doing business under said license for
which said application is made, and
shall state in said notice that unless
cause to the contrary thereof be shown
on or before the 18th day of said month
the license applied for will be issued; ;
and at the time of filing said petition
two dollars shall be paid to said Clerk
for the publication of said notice. In
said petition shall be stated:
% The name or names and resi-
dence of the applicant or applicants,
age, place of birth, that he or they are
citizens of the United States, and If
a naturalized citizen, when and where
naturalized, and how long he or they
have resided in said county.
CD The particular place for which
the license is desired, designating the
same by street and number, if practi-
cable, and if not, by such other apt de-
scription as will definitely locate it.
(3) The name of the owner or own
ers of the premises upon which the
business, if licensed, is to be carried
on, and the character of the holding
of the proposed licensee.
(4) Whether or not the applicant
or applicants CIR either of them, has
had a license for the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors revoked, and if so when
and for what offense; whether or not
the applicants or either of them have
been convicted of any crime within
two years preceding the filing of his
petition and, if so, for what offense;
and that no person (unless the appli-
can't whose license has been revoked
under the provisions of this Act, has
any interest in the business to be car
ried on under the license thereby ap-
piled for, nor will the applicant or
applicants permit any such person or
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during the existence of said license;
60 That he or they will not sell
or allow to be sold in said house or on
said premises any spirituous or fer
mented liquors on Sunday, or on cleo
ton day, nor will he or they knowingly
sell or allow to be sold any intoXicat
ing liquors to minors, or habitual
drunkards at any time, nor knowing
ly allow a minor to drink, loiter or
loaf in said house, or on the premises
for which said license is asked;
60 That he or they will not suffer
or permit gambling in said licensed
building or on or about it's premises,
keep or permit to he Kept bawdy
house in said house or on said prem
ises, nor suffer or permit the gathering
together in said house or on said prem
Uses of women for lewd or immoral
purposes
CD That said applicant or appli-
cants has or have been resident or
residents of said county for more than
one year prior to the filing Of said
petition; or if said applicant or appli-
cants has or have not been a resident
or residents of said county for at
least one year, then an account of the
character of business he has or they
have engaged in for the preceding two
years, the place or places where car
ried on, and whether or not during
said period of time he has or they
have been convicted of any crime or
misdemeanor, and if he has or they
have, a certified copy of the proceed
ings in such case shall be filed with
said petition.
90 That six reputable free holders
above the age of twenty-five years who
are bona fide residents of the neighbor-
hood in which the business petitioned
to be licensed is to be conducted and
whose signatures are subscribed to
said petition certify that he or they
are proper person or persons to con-
duct said business and recommend
that the license applied for be issued.
90 That no person or persons 9TH
er than the petitioner or petitioners
has or shall have any interest in the
business for which the license is ap-
piled for.
Sec. "a D. Every such petition shall
be signed and verified by the affidavit
of the applicant or applicants made
before the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Carroll County, and to said Pc
tition shall be attached the certificate
of the free holders who recommend
the issuing of the license which shall
be subscribed by them, and the fact
that freeholder Is resident of an
other county shall not ipso facto dis
qualify him from signing such certifi-
cate; and no freeholder shall recon-
mend the issuing Of more than one
license or sign more than one petition,
except in cases of the assignment of
licenses. In cases where two or more
recommendations shall be signed by
the same person, the one first filed
with the Clerk shall be considered as
first signed, and his signature to all
subsequent petitions shall be deemed
void and of no effect. If any false
statement of fact be made in any part
of said petition, the petitioner or petit
TONERS shall upon indictment and con-
viction thereof, be deemed guilty of
perjury, and the license, il any, shall
be revoked, and he or they be subject
to the penalties provided by the Gen
eral Laws of this State for the crime
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