The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-03-27

the first day of the succeeding month,
upon the petitioner or petitioners pay
ing to said Clerk, il the proposed place.
of sale is located In the City of West
minister, or within one-half mile of the
corporate limits thereof, the sum OF
three hundred dollars, and elsewhere
in said county the sum OF two hundred
and fifty dollars, as well as the further
sum of fifty cents as fee to the Clerk,
but if there be any remonstrance or
objection filed against the issuing OF
any license petitioned for before the
expiration of the time fixed by the no
tice above required, the Clerk shall not
issue the same, but shall at once refer
the petition and objection or remon-
STRANGE to the Circuit Court for Car
roll county, and any judge thereof
shall fix date as early as practicable
when said petition and remonstrance
shall be heard, and the Clerk shall
docket the case, notify the parties of
the time fixed, and at such hearing
the burden of proof shall be upon the
petitioner to establish such allegations
of his petition as are denied by the
remonstrance. The said Court shall
in it's discretion, whenever in its opin-
ion the petitioner is or petitioners are,
unfit person or persons to be granted
such license or the place for which the
said license is applied is not proper
one with reference to the location OF
any of the public schools or churches
of the county, or any other sufficient
cause, for the sale of intoxicating liq-
uors, or if the petitioner has not COM
piled with all the prerequisites of the
Act, direct said Clerk not to issue said
license. And if said Court shall deter
mine that said license shall be issued,
then the Clerk shall issue the same,
upon payment to him Of the license fee
hereinafter provided for land the judge
hearing said petition and remonstrance
shall impose the payment of the costs
of such hearing in such manner as he
may deem equitable and just.
Sec. "a G.. The Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Carroll County shall keep
and preserve in his office full record
of all applications for licenses and all
recommendations for and remon-
strances against the granting thereof,
and the time and hour of filing the
same, whether it be granted or refus-
ed.
Sec. 81 H. Druggists and apothe-
carries shall not be required to obtain
a license under the provisions OF this
Act, but they shall not sell intoxicat-
ing liquors except on the written pre-
scriptions of a regular physician nor
more than once on any prescription or
a physician, and every druggist or
apothecary shall keep book for the
special purpose, and enter therein the
date of every sale of intoxicating liq-
auor made by him, the person to whom
sold the kind quantity and price there
of, and the purpose for which 1t was
sold, and shall file and preserve the
description. Any failure to comply
with the provisions OF this section, or
produce said book and prescription
before any Court of Justice when ord
cred SO to do, shall render said drug
gist or apothecary so failing, liable to
the same penalties as If he had sold
intoxicating liquors without license.
And any physician who shall willfully
prescribe any intoxicating liquors, as
a beverage, for persons of known in
temperate habits, shall be guilty OF
misdemeanOr and upon CONVICTION
thereof shall be subject to the same
penalties prescribed for licensees who
furnish, sell or give intoxicating llq-
uors to persons Of Incorporate habits.
Sec. 81 |. No person having a Ii
cense under the provisions of this Act
shall sell, give or barter in Carroll
county aforesaid any spirituous or
fermented liquors to any person VINO
is a minor or under twenty-one years
of age; nor knowingly sell, give or
barter to any person any spirltuous or
fermented liquors to be drank by any
person who is minor or under TWEEN
ty-one years of age, or knowingly al
low upon the premises occupied by
such licensee any person VINO is
minor or under twenty-one years OF
age to drink any spirituous or fermented
liquors, sold, bartered or gwen by
him, nor shall any such licensee allow
any person who Is minor, or under
twenty-one years of age, not being the
ward, child or employee OF such lcen-
see, to frequent, loaf, or Iolter upon or
about his premises where sp1rltuous
or fermented liquors are sold. NO IL
censee under this Act shall sell, furn-
ish or give any spirituous or fermented
LIQUORS to any habitual drunkard or
person visibly affected by intoxicating
liquor, or to any person whose parent
or parents, guardian, husband, wife,
son, daughter, brother or sister or
committee, shall have given written
notice that such person is of intemp-
crate habits, and requesting such IL
censee not to sell to him or her; nor
shall any person or persons doing
business under license issued under
the provisions of this Act permit any
other person, who has been refused
license, or whose license has been re-
voked under the provisions Of this Act,
to have any interest whatsoever in
said business.
Sec 81 ]. No licensee under this
Act shall sell or furnish to any person
spirituous or fermented liquors on
any day on which an election Is now
or may hereafter be required to be
held, Except that said licensees in
cases of municipal elections shall only
be required to close their places of
business in towns where said elections
are held during the hours of the cleo
tions) or on the Lords Day, common
ly called Sunday.
Sec. 81 X. No licensee under this
Act shall sell or give any spirituous
or fermented liquors TO any person, or
suffer or permit any person to enter
or remain in his saloon, or In a hotel,
in the room where such liquors are
sold between the hours of II o'clock
p. m. and o'clock a. M; suffer or
permit any person, (other than MEM
Der of his family or a person bona
fide in his employ for wages) except
in cases of emergency, to enter or re-
main in his saloon, or in any room
where intoxicating liquors are sold
or furnished at any time on Sunday
or on election day; and during the
time between IL o'clock p. m. and 5
o'clock a. m, and on Sunday and on
election day the windows of the saloon
or place where intoxicating liquors
are sold shall be left without blinds,
curtains or any device whatsoever to
prevent or obstruct the view from the
outside.
Sec. 54 l.. Every person receiving
a license under this Act to sell spir-
ituous or fermented liquors, shall
frame his license under glass, and
place the same 80 that it shall at all
times be conspicuous, and easily read
in his place of making sales, and no
license issued under this Act shall au-
thorize sales by any persons who shall
neglect this requirement.
Sec. 81 M. Any person who shall
hereafter be convicted of selling spir-
ituous or fermented liquors in Carroll
county, without a license first being
had and obtained under the provisions
of this Act shall he sentenced tn nav