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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1784.

same, to carry such person before some justice of the peace,
who shall take a recognizance from such person, with security,
to appear at the next county court; provided, that persons
travelling with linen, hemp, flax or thread, the growth and
manufacture of this state, and selling or bartering the same,
shall not be deemed hawkers or pedlars within this act.
By 1819, ch. 184, sec. 6, the tax is raised to $40.
By 1820, ch. 124, sec. 1, a further definition is given of those who shall
be deemed 'hawkers.'
By 1832, ch. 273, sec. 1, the fine is not less than $10,, and not more than
$100.
By 1827, ch. 117, the clerk is to receive the tax.
SEC. 7. Merged in 1832, ch. 273, sec. 7.
SEC. 8. Merged in 1819, ch. 184, and in 1827, ch. 117.

May
suppress
disorderly
retailers,
&c.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That if any retailer shall keep a
disorderly house, or permit or suffer any liquor by him sold or
bartered, mixed or unmixed, to be drank in or about his house,
upon complaint made thereof to any county court on the eastern
shore, they may suppress such retailer; and during the recess
of the court, upon complaint made to any two of the justices of
any county court on the said shore, or upon their own observa-
tion of such disorderly house, it shall be lawful for them to
suspend such retailer till the next county court, who may hear
and finally determine on the conduct of such retailer, and either
entirely suppress, or permit the continuation of such retailer ;
and if any retailer, suspended as aforesaid, shall presume, dur-
ing such suspension, to retail, he shall forfeit forty shillings
current money for every such offence.
As to the fine, see 1832, ch. 273.
By 1830, ch. 99, the judges pf the orphans court may suppress disorder-
ly houses and by 1831, ch. 323, the court may withhold licenses.
SEC. 10. Merged in 1825, ch. 206.

Merchants,
&c. not to
sell less
than ten
gallons,
&c.

SEC, 11. And be it enacted, That any thing in this act shall
not prohibit any merchant, or person keeping shop for the sale
of merchandise, to sell any wine, rum, brandy, whiskey, or other
distilled spirituous liquors, not less than ten gallons, so that
such liquor, nor any part thereof, be not drank in the house or
shop; or prohibit any person, his agent, clerk or other manager,
to sell or supply any such liquor, not less than one pint at the
same time, to tradesmen, labourers or others, hired or employed
by such person, or his agent, clerk or other manager.
See 1827, ch. 117.
SEC. 12. Merged in 1834, ch. 244.
SEC. 13, 14. Merged in 1827, ch. 117.
SEC. 15. Merged in 1828, ch. 85, and 95.