1650 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 704

license therefor and pay an annual license fee of $10. 00, if
operating in the City of Baltimore, and the like amount of
$10. 00, if operating in each county of this State in which said
person, firm or domestic corporation shall operate; provided,
however, this section shall not apply to persons, firms or cor-
porations doing a construction business the gross amount of
whose orders accepted and executed does not exceed five thou-
sand dollars ($5, 000) per annum.

NON-RESIDENT WHOLESALE TOBACCO DEALERS.

185. Each non-resident person, firm or corporation who shall
sell at wholesale any tobacco, cigars or cigarettes for delivery
in this State, shall before doing so, first take out a license there-
for, in the City of Baltimore, if such business is transacted in
said city, paying therefor an annual license fee of $50. 00; and
in each county of this State in which said non-resident person,
firm or corporation shall operate, paying therefor an annual
license fee of $10. 00.

NON-RESIDENT WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALERS.

186. Any person, or persons, partnership or corporation,
being non-residents of the State of Maryland, who shall in this
State sell spirituous or intoxicating liquors, or any malt, brewed
or fermented liquors, at wholesale, by or through agents, sales-
men or other persons soliciting or doing business in this State,
shall before doing so, first take out a license therefor, and pay-
ing an annual license fee of $300. 00 for the privilege of con-
ducting such business within this State. Provided; however,
this section shall not confer any power to sell the liquor re-
ferred to in this section in any city, towns or county wherein
the sale of liquors is prohibited by law.

187. All licenses issued under the provisions of Sections 164
to 186, both inclusive, of this Article, shall be granted by the
Clerks of the Circuit Courts for the Counties, and the Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas in the City of Baltimore, and
all licenses granted or issued by said Clerks shall expire the
first day of May next thereafter, and if granted for part of a
year, a ratable sum shall be charged therefor.

188. The failure of any person or persons, firm, company or
corporation, resident or non-resident, to procure the license as
directed in Sections 164 to 187, inclusive, of this Article, shall
be a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, such person or persons,