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voter* interested, and the owner of adjoining real estate may object^ A time must be fixed for hearing applications and re- monstrances.^ No license shall be issued without the written con- sent of the lessor.*

Bond, — Moreover, the applicant must take oath not to violate the law, and must give a bond for from $250^ to $6,000,* condi- tioned on observance of the laws and subject to suits under the Civil Damage Act."^

To this bond there must be two sureties who must each take oath that they are worth the amount of the bond over all debts, and must designate property to that amount.^

They must not themselves be dealers in liquor, must own real property to the value of $2,000, in the precinct, and must not have gone on any other bond.®

This application or petition goes before the city council.*^ county commissioners,^ county court,^ or board of excise,^ to which the power to license, tax, regulate, or prohibit ** is given.

In some States the action of these bodies is final, in others an appeal will lie, and they may be compelled by a writ of mandamus to issue license.

In still other States they may completely withhold all licenses in their discretion.*^ The body which may grant license may also re- voke it for cause,** and they may suspend it pending the examina- tion of an affidavit of two citizens that the licensee has sold to a minor or to one intoxicated.*^

Licenses are classified as manufacturing, wholesale, retail, bar- room, grocery, and drummer.** They allow the sale of all liquors, or of beer and light wines only, and they sometimes forbid the sale of liquor to be drunk on the premises.

License Fees, — The taxes and fees on licenses are on —

��1 Rev. Stots. Ind. 1881, s. 5314. • Pub. Stats. Mass. 1882, ch. 100, s. 7.

» Laws Pa. 1887, no. 53, s. 4. * Code Wash. Terr. 1881, s. 2060.

T Rev. Stats. 111. 1887, ch. 43, s. 5. » Rev. Stats. N. Y. p. 1979.
 * Rev. Stats. N. Y. p. 1979. • Acts Mich. 1887, no. 313, s. 8.

• Laws Pa. 1887, no. 53, s. 5. 9th. '« Gen. Stats. Col. 1883, p. 2106, s. 11. 11 Gen. Stat». Conn. 1888, s. 3053. " Dig. Stats. Ark. 1884, s. 4508.

" Rev. Stats. N. Y. p. 1979. " Rev. Stats. Neb. 1887, ch. 50, s. 25.

1* Gen. Stats. Col. 1883, p. 2104, s. 9. " Pol. Code Dak. 1885, ch. 35, s. 5.

" Laws Fla. 1883, ch. 3416, s. 5. " Laws Miss. 1886, p. 16.