Application, form of before the 20th day of June in the year 1918, and thereafter on or before the first day of March in the year in which the license is to be granted, (b) He has given the security as required by this Act, (c) He is certified in writing signed by the Inspector to be a person of good reputation and character, (d) He has not been convicted of any offence against any of the provisions of this Act or any previous Act relating to the granting of licenses for the sale of liquor within three years prior to his application, (e) He has complied with the requirements of this Act preliminary to the issue of such license, and has received a recommendation by the inspector in favor of the issue of the license, (f) Tire warehouse or store in respect of which he applies for a license is such as is required by this Act and suitable for carrying the business in a reputable manner, (2) If any person who has not been refused a license within the year next preceding wishes to apply for a license at any other time than as hereinbefore provided, he may send his application to the Board and thereupon the Board may grant or refuse such application as it shall see fit. or retail 13. The application for a wholesale. vendor's license shall be in the form No. 3 given in Schedule "A" to this Act (varied to suit the case) and shall be accompanied by the affidavits of the applicant and two reputable persons resident in or near the locality where the applicant lives verifying the correctness of the statements in such application in the forms Nos. 4 and 5 in the said Schedule. bond. 14. (1) Before any vendor's license is issued, the vendor's person applying for the same shall enter into a bond. to "the Board of Commissioners" under this Act with two good and sufficient sureties, residents of Prince. Edward Island, to be approved by the Board, with the condition and in other respects according to the form or to the effect given in form No. 5 in Schedule "A" to this Act, as is applicable to the case. (2) Members of the City or Town Councils, inspectors and constables shall not be accepted as sureties in the bond to be given under this section. (3) The penalty mentioned in the bond may, on breach of the condition of the bond, be recoverable by and shall be payable to the Board in an action at the suit of "The Board of Commissioners" who shall for such purposes be deemed to be a corporation having authority to sue in such name. (4) The bond of a guarantee company, empowered to execute the same and duly authorized under the provisions of "An Act respecting Surety and Guarantee Companies" to do business in this province, may be accepted in lieu of a bond with personal sureties, in which case the necessary changes shall be made in the form of the bond (Form No. 5.) (5) The amount of the bond shall be for the applicant or principal $500.00 and for the surities, $250.00 each, and such principal and surities shall jusitfy by affidavits in the said amounts respectively, but if the bond of a guarantee company is furnished it shall be in the sum of $500.00 (in addition to the bond of the applicant or principal for $500.00.) terminated. 15. If any person having lawfully obtained a License. how wholesale or retail vendor's license under this Act dies before the expiration of his license or purports to sell or otherwise assign his business or becomes Permit of one month. Renewing license. Removal to other premises. dispossessed of it by operation of law or, if the licensed premises are destroyed by fire or otherwise, the license, subject to sections 16 tnd 17, shall ipso facto become forfeited and be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever. 16. The Board may, if it seems proper, give in writing permission for the carrying on of business under any such wholesale or retail vendor's license in the premises described in such written permission by any person who may appear to be entitled to the benefit thereof, but such permission shall not extent beyond the period of one month from the happening of the event from which the forfeiture of the license would result, and such permission shall entitle the person to whom it is granted to the benefit of the license during that month according to the terms of the permission; but such person shall during such period be subject to the provisions of this Act and liable to the same penalties and punishment as if he had been a vendor duly licensed under this Act. 17. Any person claiming the benefit of such license may, within such period of one month, apply to the Board for the appointment of him as such wholesale or retail vendor, as the case may be, in respect of the said premises or of other specified premises. 18. Any bond or security which the holder of a wholesale or retail vendor's license may have given for any purpose in relation to such license shall, in case of removal to any other premises which may be authorized by the Board, apply to the warehouse or store to which such removal is authorized; and, in all cases where a party other than the original wholesale or retail vendor (as the case may be) applies under any circumstances for the benefit of a license to him in the place of such original vendor, he shall furnish such security as may be required in the case of the original vendor's application for a license. of license 19. The Board may at any time, upon application cancelation by a wholesale or retail vendor, cancel the license held by such vendor. complaint 20. (1) Where a complaint in writing signed by Vendors, ten or more property holders, resident near the ware- regarding. house or store in respect of which a wholesale or retail vendor's license has Leen issued, is lodged with the Secretary of the Board together with the sum of $50, to be paid to the Secretary of the Board, (and an address at which any notice to the complainants may be left or served) to the effect that any wholesale or retail vendor's license has been obtained by fraud or false statements, or in an improper manner, or that the conditions necessary to the granting of such license do not exist at the time of the complaint, or that the licensed premises are constructed in such a way as not to be in accordance with the requirements of this Act or that such vendor is not keeping the licensed premises in an orderly manner or in accordance with such requirements or that he has been guilty of any infraction of this Act for which his license is declared subject to forfeiture, the Secretary of the Board shall forthwith give notice of such complaint to the vendor and transmit the complaint to the Judge of the County Court of the County in which such licensed premises are situate and the Judge shall thereupon fix a time and place when he will hear the complaint, and notice in writing of such time and place shall be mailed by the Judge or at the request of the Judge by the Clerk of the County Court at least ten days before the hearing to the persons complaining (at the address mentioned in such complaint) and the person complained against and the Judge shall proceed to hear and summarily determine the matter of the complaint and Disposal of liquor, canceled. the proceedings in and about the same, including the compelling the attendance and the hearing of witnesses (with the use of such forms, as may suit the case or as the Judge shall prescribe) shall, as nearly as possible be the same as in the case of hearing of an action in the County Court and the Judge shall, if he finds the complaint established, adjudge that such license ought to be revoked and cancelled accordingly; and thereupon the license shall be and become inoperative and of no effect and the person to whom such license is issued shall therafter, during the full period of two years, be disqualified from obtaining any further or other license under this Act. (2) In the event of the cancellation of a license under sub-section (1) the sum of $50.00 so deposited with the Secretary of the Board, shall be returned to the complainants upon the production of the order of the Judge. If no cancellation of such license be made by the Judge the said deposit of $50 shall form part of the fund for the enforcement of this Act, after payment thereout of such reasonable costs to the vendor as such judge may order. 21. If at the time of the revocation, cancelation, license being forfeiture or termination of the license of any wholesale or retail vendor, any liquor which was legally purchased by such vendor in accordance with the provisions of this Act be unsold and remain in the warehouse or store in respect of which such license has been legally granted, the Board of Commissioners may by written permit authorize any other vendor or vendors appointed under the provisions of this Act to purchase the whole or any part of such liquors at such price or prices as may be agreed upon by such purchasing vendor or vendors, and the vendor whose license has been revoked, cancelled or forfeited or has terminated (or the legal representatives, assignee for creditors or other owner of such liyuor as the case |