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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CAPTER 218.
AN ACT to license Traders in Baltimore County.

Balto. County.
Trader's
license.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That no person or resident conducting business in
Baltimore County shall sell any goods or merchandise
whatever in Baltimore County, unless he shall first take
out the license now prescribed by law, and no person not
residing in Baltimore, Carroll, Howard, Anne Arundel and
Harford Counties, and not paying said license, whether a
dealer, merchant, storekeeper, huckster or trader, selling or
offering for sale any merchandise, except fish, fruits and vege-
tables, except to dealers, shall be permitted to sell any
goods or merchandise from wagons in said county, without
having first obtained a license therefor from the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, and having paid
therefor the sum of fifty dollars to the clerk of the said court,

License fee.

said license being for the term of one year, from May the first
of each and every year, and said license fee to go to the Treas-
urer of Baltimore County for the improvement of the public
roads of said county.

Penalty for
violation.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person selling from
wagons, as referred to in this Act, or soliciting or drumming
for sale of any of the articles referred to in said section in this
Act, without having previously obtained said license, shall
be liable to a fine of fifty dollars for each and every violation
of this Act, for which he shall be convicted; the one-half of said
fine to go to the informer, and the other half to the support of
the public schools of Baltimore County; provided, that no
grower or producer of any goods or merchandise referred to
and included in this Act shall be required to take out said
license.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
on May 1, 1900.
Approved April 5, 1900.

CHAPTER 219.

New Market.

AN ACT to prohibit the granting of license for the sale of
spirituous or fermented liquor or lager beer in the village of
New Market (Maryland Line P. O.), in the first precinct of
the Seventh election district in Baltimore County, Maryland,
or at any place within said Baltimore County, within a
radius of one mile of the Methodist Protestant Church in
said village of New Market.