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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1824.

CHAPTER 158.

A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, a Supplement to the Act
laying duties on Licenses to Retailers of Dry Goods, and for other pur-
poses, passed at December Session, eighteen hundred and twenty-one,
chapter two hundred and forty-six.
Every provision in this act appears to be merged in 1827, ch. 117;
1828, ch. 85, 95, 129 ; 1829, ch. 217 ; 1830, ch. 184 ; 1831, ch. 262; 1832,
ch. 273; 1833, ch. 266; 1834, ch. 232; 1837, ch. 124; yet as there is no
repealing clause, it is reprinted.

Former
clause
repealed.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all such parts of the act to which this is a further supple-
ment, which requires importers of foreign articles or commodi-
ties, to take out licenses be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Wholesale
merchants
required to
have
licenses.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every vender of goods or
merchandise of foreign growth and manufacture by the case,
package or piece, or of wine, rum, brandy, whiskey, pr other
distilled spirituous liquors, by the puncheon, pipe, tierce or
quarter cask, whether he may or may not be an importer, shall
be deemed and taken to be a wholesale merchant who is required
to take out license under the act to which this is a further sup-
plement;. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be
construed to apply to those persons who are ordinarily termed
retail merchants.

Retailers of
liquors ex-
empt from
retail dry
good license

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That no licensed retailer of spiri-
tuous liquors, who is not a vender of cloths, linens, and cotton
goods, shall be compelled to take out a license as a retailer of
dry goods.

Persons

neglecting.
License for
one year.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons shall
neglect to take out license or licenses as required by this act,
and the act to which this is a further supplement at the time
therein specified, or within three days after the meeting of the
first county court of the county where such person or persons
reside, after the first day of August in each and every year,
such person or persons may and shall be proceeded against in
the manner provided by the act to which this is a further sup-
plement; and there shall not any licenses be granted to whole-
sale merchants or retailers for a shorter period than one year.
Bee 1827, ch. 117, sec. 2, which provides that the licenses shall he taken
out until the 1st of May.

Proof of
foreign
growth.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That when any wholesale mer-
chant or retailer is prosecuted under the provisions of this act or
the act to which this is a further supplement, it shall not be
necessary for the attorney prosecuting for the state, to prove
that the goods, wares or merchandise sold by such wholesale
merchant or retailer were of foreign growth or manufacture! but
they shall be so considered unless the contrary is proved by the
defendant, in such prosecution.