LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1784.

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CHAPTER 87.
AN ACT for founding a College on the western shore of this state, and
constituting the same, together with Washington College on the eastern
shore, into one university, by the name of The University of Maryland.
The sections connected with the police regulations contained in this
law, are alone reviewed. The funds appropriated to the college (Saint
John's) were withdrawn in 1805, (ch. 85.)

SEC. 22. And be it enacted, That the regulations and provi-
sions made in the act of assembly, entitled, an act for licensing
and regulating ordinary-keepers, passed at March session, seven-
teen hundred and eighty, (except such parts of the said act as
relate to the retailing of liquors by merchants or store-keepers,
or at horse-races,) shall be and remain in full force for ever, as
to the granting licenses on the western shore, (except in the
city of Annapolis and the precincts thereof;) and the money
hereafter collected for ordinary licenses granted on the western
shore, and paid to the treasurer of the said shore, shall remain
in his hands, subject to the orders of the visitors and governors
of the said college, to be drawn according to the directions of
this act.

Ordinary
licenses.

SEC. 23. And be it enacted, That every person carrying goods,
wares or merchandises, for sale, from place to place, shall be
deemed a hawker or pedlar, after the first day of April next shall,
before they trade, barter or sell, any goods, wares or merchan-
dise, on the western shore, take out a license from some county
court of the said shore, which shall be renewed every year ; and
the said county courts are hereby authorized and required, on
application of any person of reputation, to grant license to such
person to travel and trade as a hawker or pedlar on the western
shore, for one year from the date of the said license, which
license shall be made out by the clerk of the court under his
hand and the seal of the county, and for every license, and the
renewal thereof, there shall be paid six pounds current money
to the sheriff of the county, and five shillings to the clerk of the
court for making out or renewing such license ; and the several
clerks are directed annually, on or before the first day of Octo-
ber, to return to the treasurer of the western shore a list of
licenses granted to hawkers and pedlars ; and the several sheriffs
shall annually, on or before the first day of October, pay all
money by them received for the said licenses to the treasurer oi
the said shore, and the same shall remain in his hands, subject
to the orders of the visitors and governors of the said college, to
be drawn according to this act ; and if any hawker or pedlar
after the first day of April next, shall be found travelling with,
and exposing or offering for sale, any goods, wares or merchan-
dise, on the western shore, without a license obtained as afore-
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Hawkers,
&c.