WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 537

	SEC. 1. From and after the passage of this act it
	shall not be lawful for the clerks of Circuit Courts
	of this State to issue any license for the sale of spir-	Recommend-
	ituous or fermented liquors, or lager beer, to any	ed.
	person or body politic in this State, unless such per-
	son or body politic shall have been recommended to
	the clerks by the grand jury, which shall have been
	in session at the term next preceding the first day of
	May in each and every year, in the county where
	the applicant for such license shall reside; provided,
	however, that this act or any of its provisions shall
	not apply to Baltimore city, Frederick, Baltimore,
	Prince George, Allegany, Somerset, Carroll, Howard,
	Washington Wicomico, St. Mary's, Harford, Dorches-
	ter, Cecil and Anne Arundel counties ; and provided,
	nevertheless, that the clerk of the Circuit Court for
	Charles county is hereby authorized and empowered
	to issue license for one year from the first day of
	May, eighteen hundred and eighty, for the sale of
	spirituous or fermented liquors, or lager beer, in
	said county, to any persons applying for the same,
	who shall file with the said clerk, with said appli-	File with
	cation, a recommendation signed by a majority of	clerk.
	those who constituted the grand jury at the Nov-
	ember term, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, of
	said court, recommending the granting of said li-
	cense, with an affidavit of the applicant attached
	thereto, that the said signatures to said recommen-	Affidavit at-
	dation are true and genuine; provided, however,	tached.
	that said person applying for said license shall have
	been engaged in the sale of such liquors at the time
	of the November term of said court , and provided,
	also, that he shall not have been refused such license
	by said grand jury, at said November term of court,
	eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts	Inconsistent
	of acts inconsistent with this act be and the same	acts lepealed.
	are hereby repealed.
	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That none of the pro-
	ceedings and recommendations heretofore had and
	made under the provisions of the acts of eighteen	Not affected.
	hundred and seventy-four, chapter four hundred and
	thirty-nine, shall be in any manner affected by this
	repeal and re-enactment of the same.