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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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cause to be printed in the forms prescribed by law
or
heretofore used and adopted in this State, blank marriage
licenses, traders licenses, ordinary licenses, non-resident
licenses, brokers licenses, hawkers and pedlars
licenses, exhibition licenses, billiard table licenses, wood-hucksters
licenses, and all other licenses heretofore issued
by the clerks of the courts of this State and now authorised
by law, with the several grades, rates and descriptions
thereof, with reference to the character and
object of said license, the sum to be paid therefor, and
the fractional part of the year, not less than one month
or any number of months for which the same may be
issued; and the several clerks of the Circuit courts, and
of the court of Common Pleas of Baltimore, shall on or
before the said first day of May, in the year eighteen
hundred and fifty-three, and on or before the same day
in every year thereafter, and at such other time or times
as may be necessary, make application to the said Comptroller
for such number of said blank licenses, and of
each description thereof, as may probably be required
for the use of the respective counties and the city of
Baltimore for one year, or the fractional part of the year
terminating on the thirtieth of April then next ensuing,
and thereupon the said Comptroller shall forthwith deliver
to the said several clerks, the number and description
of licenses required by them for the space of one
year or the fractional parts of the year as aforesaid; the
said Comptroller first countersigning the same with his
proper name of office, and taking a receipt from each
of said clerks for the number and description of licenses
so delivered; and on and after the said first day of May
in the year aforesaid, the said several clerks shall grant
to all and every person and persons who shall apply for
the same, such license or licenses as he, she or they
may desire and be authorised to obtain, properly filled
up and signed by the said clerks respectively.
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Accounts to
be returned
semi-annually.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted,
That the lists and accounts
of all licenses issued by the clerks of the courts
of this State, and now required by law to be returned
to the Treasurer, shall from and after the said first day
of May in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three, be
returned semi-annually, on or before the first days of
June and December in each and every year, to the
Comptroller of the Treasury Department, and the said
accounts which shall be verified by the oath or affirmation
of the respective clerks returning the same, in addition
to the matters heretofore set forth therein, shall
show the number, grades, rates and description of blank
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