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said for that purpose, such hawker or pedlar shall, for every
offence, forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds current money ;
and it is hereby declared to be the duty of every sheriff, deputy-
sheriff and constable, on the western shore, to examine and
require any person carrying goods from place to place for sale,
to produce a license, and in case of refusal or neglect on request,
to produce the 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.
See note to the 6th section of ante page 183, 1784, ch. 7.
SEC. 24. Merged in 1832, ch. 273.
SEC. 25. Merged in 1819, ch. 184, and in 1827, ch. 117, sec. 7.

May
suppress
disorderly
retailers,

&c.

SEC. 26. And be it enacted. That if any retailer shall keep a
disorderly house, upon complaint made thereof to any county
court on the western 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 observation 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 con-
tinuation of such retailer ; and if any retailer, suspended as
aforesaid, shall presume, during such suspension, to retail, he
shall forfeit sixty shillings current money for every such offence.
See note to 1784, ch. 7, sec. 9, ante page 184.
SEC. 27. Merged in 1825, ch. 206.
SEC. 28. Merged in 1827, ch. 117.
SEC. 29. Repealed by 1834, ch. 244.
SEC. 30, 31. Merged in 1827, ch. 117.
SEC. 32. Merged in 1828, ch. 85, and 1827, ch. 117.

CHAPTER 58.

Preamble.

A BILL, entitled, AN ACT to secure the payment, and to give a recovery,
of money lent by foreigners to citizens of this state, on mortgage of lands.
WHEREAS, it may prove advantageous to citizens of this
state, were foreigners enabled to lend them money on mort-
gages, and such loans may conduce much to the improvement
of the country ;

Certain
loans valid.
&c.

SEC. 2. Be it efiacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That on the actual loan of money by any foreigner to any citi-
zen of this state, on an interest or premium not exceeding six
per cent, by the year, (the present legal rate of interest,) any
mortgage, made for the security of the principal lent, and the
interest agreed to be paid therefor, acknowledged and recorded