1410                             Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 804

such sale shall be exempted from, the payment of the fee and the
filing of the bond herein provided.

(c)   The County Commissioners of Washington County shall en-
dorse upon such application the date of its filing, and shall preserve
the same as a record of office, and shall make an abstract of the facts
set forth in such application, and shall indicate whether the license
was granted or refused.

(d)  Any person making a false statement in the application pro-
vided for in this section shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of
perjury.

167 C.

No person in contemplation of a closing-out sale under a license
as provided for in Section 167B shall order any goods, wares, or
merchandise for the purpose of selling and disposing of the same at
such sale, and any unusual purchase and additions to the stock of
such goods, wares, or merchandise within 60 days prior to the filing
of application for a license to conduct such sale shall be presumptive
evidence that such purchases and additions to stock were made in
contemplation of such sale.

167D.

No person carrying on or conducting a closing-out sale or a sale
of goods, wares, or merchandise damaged by fire, smoke, water, or
otherwise, under a license as provided in Section 167B shall, during
the continuance of such sale, add any goods, wares or merchandise to
the stock inventoried in his original application for such license, and
no goods, wares, or merchandise shall be sold at or during such sale,
excepting the goods, wares, or merchandise described and inventoried
in such original application.

167E.

No person shall conduct a closing-out sale or a sale of goods, wares,
or merchandise damaged by fire, smoke, water, or otherwise beyond
the termination date specified for such sale, except that an extension
may be authorized upon proper showing of need; nor shall any per-
son, upon conclusion of such sale, continue that business which had
been represented as closing out or going out of business under the
same name, or under a different name, at the same location, or else-
where in Washington County where the inventory for such sale was
filed; nor shall any person, upon conclusion of such sale, continue
business contrary to the designation of such sale.

167F.

Any person who shall advertise, hold, conduct, or carry on any
sale of goods, wares, or merchandise under the description of closing-
out sale or a sale of goods, wares, or merchandise damaged by fire,
smoke, water or otherwise, contrary to the provision of this sub-title,
or who shall violate any of the provisions of this sub-title shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof,
be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than
ninety days or both.