AUCTIONS.

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Sfio. 23. And be it enacted, That nothing contained in this
act, shall be construed so as in any manner to give an uncon-

State right
reserved.

trolled right to the corporate authorities of Baltimore, to any

sum or sums of money hereby given or granted, but the said

sum or sums of money shall be subject to any future disposi-

tion of the legislature.

SEC. 24. And be it enacted, That the operation of this act,
shall commence and take effect on the first day of April next,
and that nothing herein contained, shall affect the rights of

Operation
commences
1st April.

any auctioneer or auctioneers, who may before the passage of

this act, have taken a license from the mayor of the city of
Baltimore, and paid for the same to the said mayor, but that
such license shall remain in force until the expiration thereof;

Previous
licensee
recognised.

Provided however, and it shall be the duty of the mayor and
city council, to account with the treasurer of the western shore
for the avails of duties accruing in virtue of such license or
commission after the first day of April next, and if the same
shall exceed the appropriation of this act, for deepening and

Proviso.

Mayor and
city council
to account
quarterly
therefor.

improving the harbour of the said city, to pay the excess within

ten days after the first day of July next, and so in succession

after the end of each and every quarter, during the existence of

such license or licenses, commission or commissions.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to regulate Sales by Public

Auctions, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-

seven.— 1828, ch. 148.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall and may be lawful for all persons obtaining a spe-
cial license as auctioneer, under the fifth section of the act to
which this is a supplement, to sell books, stationery, maps or
prints, by candlelight, any thing in the said section to the con-

Persons ob-
taining
special li-
cense to sell
books, &c.
by candle-
light.

trary notwithstanding.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all persons obtaining a

Persons

license as auctioneer under the sixth section of the said act, for

licensed to

the purpose of selling furniture and wearing apparel, lands, lots

sell jewelry
&c.

of ground, and other articles mentioned in the said sixth sec-

tion, and shall pay for the said license the sum of three him*

dred dollars, and enter into recognizance prescribed in the said

sixth section for said license, shall have the liberty to sell, under

the provisions of said law, jewelry, watches, tin-ware, guns,

pistols, lamps, candlesticks and mechanics' tools.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all real estate and vessels
sold by any auctioneer under the said law, shall be subject to
the same duty which is paid on other articles, except the same
be sold by an executor or administrator of any deceased person,
or under distress for rent, or taken in execution, or as effects of
any bankrupt or insolvent debtor, transferred or conveyed to

Sales of
real estate,
&c. to be
subject to
the same
duty that if
paid on
other
articles.

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