tion shall be construed as a repeal of the provisions of chapter 99 of the public acts of 1903. (Sec. 39.) [1909, Chap. 174, Secs. 1, 5.]

§ 10. Application for license. Remonstrance and hearing. All applications for licenses shall be in writing, signed by the applicant, and indorsed by five electors and taxpayers of the town within the limits of which the business under such license is to be transacted. The county commissioners in their respective counties shall not issue retail licenses for the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors to any person, unless his application therefor has been indorsed and signed by five electors and taxpayers, owning real estate, of the town, who shall certify that the applicant is a suitable person to be licensed; provided, however, that nothing herein shall prevent a corporation organized under the laws of this state from holding in its corporate name one license to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors at its place of business in any one town. No more than five licenses shall be issued to any one person, and the county commissioners may in their discretion refuse to issue more than one license to any one person. Every application shall specify the particular building in which spirituous and intoxicating liquors are to be sold, and, if said building is within two hundred feet in a direct line from any church edifice, or public schoolhouse, or the premises pertaining thereto, or any postoffice, public library, or cemetery, such application shall state the distance therefrom. No person indorsing such application shall himself be a licensed dealer in spirituous and intoxicating liquors. The application so indorsed shall be submitted to the town clerk of the town in which the business so licensed is to be carried on, who shall certify upon the same that each of said indorsers is an elector and taxpayer in said town, and said application shall then be transmitted to the county commissioners, and a copy thereof, including said indorsement, shall be filed with said town clerk, and the town clerk shall be paid a fee of fifty cents, and in cities where the names of voters are not alphabetically registered, two dollars for his services herein required by said applicant at the time the copy of said application is filed with said clerk. The

county commissioners shall advertise the said application in some daily or weekly newspaper published in said town, at least once a week for two successive weeks, or, if no newspaper be published in said town, in a newspaper having a circulation in said town and published in the nearest town in which such a newspaper is published; and the expense of such advertising shall be paid to the county commissioners by said applicant at the time the application is filed with the county commissioners. Any citizen of the town within which the business under any license is to be transacted may file with the county commissioners any objection to the granting of any license to any applicant therefor, and, upon the filing of such objection, said county commissioners shall give such notice as they shall deem reasonable of the time and place of the hearing of such objection, at least five days before such hearing shall be had, and upon such hearing said county commissioners shall decide whether or not such license shall be granted. [§ 2657, G. S., 1905, Chap. 30; 1907, Chap. 265, Sec. 1; 1909, Chaps. 99, 131.]

§ 11. Notice of hearing on application for license. Whenever an application is made to the county commissioners for a license to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors, other than a renewal of a former license at the same place, the county commissioners shall require a notice for a hearing upon such application to be posted on the building specified in said application in such manner that it shall be plainly visible to passers-by; which notice shall be signed by the applicant for such license and shall be so posted for a period of not less than ten days prior to such hearing. The comptroller shall cause suitable blanks for the purpose herein specified to be printed and furnished to the county commissioners, and applicants for such licenses shall use the blanks so furnished in giving such notice. Such notice shall be substantially in the form following:

Notice is hereby given that

has ap

plied for a license to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors in this building, and a hearing will be had on

the

day of

A.D. 19-,

All persons interested may be heard at said time and place. [§ 2644, G. S.]

§ 12. Application to be rejected if enough licensed places exist. The county commissioners may reject an application for license for the sale of spirituous or intoxicating liquors, upon finding that there already exists in the town or in the vicinity of the place for which a license is applied for, a sufficient number of licensed places. The applicant may appeal from such doings of said commissioners to the superior court of the county, and said court is hereby empowered to hear and determine such appeals. [§ 2645, G. S.]

§ 13. Number of licenses limited. In any town in which, on October 1, 1909, the number of licenses granted by the county commissioners is in excess of the ratio of one license to each five hundred inhabitants of the town, renewals of licenses in such town may annually, except as hereinafter provided, be granted by the county commissioners to persons holding licenses at the time application for such renewal is made, but no new licenses shall be granted until such time as, by reason of failure to renew or revocation of such licenses, or other lawful cause, the number of licenses granted in such town shall be reduced so that the number granted shall not be in excess of the ratio of one to each five hundred inhabitants; and in such town, thereafter, the number of licenses which may be granted by the county commissioners shall not exceed one license to each five hundred inhabitants of such town. In any town in which licenses to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors are now legally granted and in which the number of licenses granted is not now in excess of said ratio of one to five hundred, no new licenses shall be hereafter granted in excess of said ratio. If, in any town in which the granting of licenses for the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors is now prohibited by law, or in any town in which the granting of such licenses

is hereafter prohibited as provided by law, it shall thereafter become legal for the county commissioners to grant licenses in such town, the number of licenses granted by the county commissioners shall not exceed one to each five hundred inhabitants of such town. One license only may be granted in any town voting in favor of granting licenses therein and in which the number of inhabitants is less than five hundred. Licenses to druggists and wholesale dealers shall not be considered in fixing the ratio of the number of licenses to the population, as provided in this section, and the number of inhabitants shall be determined by the United States census last preceding the granting of such licenses. [1909, Chap. 174, Secs. 2, 3, 4.]

§ 14. Licenses to be refused in certain places. Licenses for the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors in cities shall be confined to the efficiently policed parts thereof; and no license, except the renewal of a license, at the discretion of the county commissioners as to the suitability of persons and place and subject to appeal, shall be granted in the purely residential or manufacturing parts of a town or within two hundred feet in a direct line from any church edifice or public or parochial schoolhouse, or the premises pertaining thereto, except to a wellestablished hotel of good reputation; nor shall one be granted in such proximity to a charitable institution, whether supported by public or private funds, as may be detrimental to the same; nor shall a license be granted in those parts of a license town where it is apparent that the party applying for it is seeking to obtain patronage from an adjoining no-license town; and in such cases persons in the adjoining town shall have the right to remonstrate against the granting of such license, and the county commissioners hearing such complaint shall give the same consideration to such remonstrance as if made by persons residing in the town wherein such license is asked for. This section shall not apply to the licensing of druggists. [§ 2647, G. S., 1907, Chap. 200.]

§ 15. Person declared to be unsuitable to hold license not to be employed in saloon. No person who is by statute declared to be an unsuitable person to hold

a license to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors in his own name shall be employed as a bartender or manager in any licensed saloon in this state, nor shall he be allowed to have a financial interest in any such licensed saloon. Any licensed dealer who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be subject to the penalties of section 2712 of the general statutes. (Sec. 101.) [1907, Chap. 265, Sec. 2.]

§ 16. Holder of license to be bona fide owner of business. The holder of a license to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors, except druggists, shall be the bona fide owner of the business carried on under the license and before issuing the license the county commissioners shall require each applicant to make oath that he is the bona fide owner of the business and that no person unsuitable to hold a license to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors is in any way interested in the business. [1907, Chap. 265, Sec. 3.]

§ 17. County commissioner not to sell liquors or give bond. If any county commissioner shall, either directly or indirectly, by himself or by his servant or agent, engage in the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors while holding such office, he shall become disqualified to hold such office for the remainder of the term for which he was elected, and such office shall become vacant. No person while holding the office of county commissioner shall be or become a surety on the bond of any person licensed to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors. [§ 2656, G. S.]

§ 18. No sales in public buildings. Certain persons not licensed. No spirituous and intoxicating § 18. No sales in public buildings. Certain persons not licensed. No spirituous and intoxicating liquors shall be sold, exchanged, or given away in any building belonging to or under the control of the state, or of any county or town in the state. No license for the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors shall be granted to any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, grand juror, justice of the peace, prosecuting agent, selectman, except said selectman be a hotel keeper, or to any female who is not known to the county commissioners to be a woman of