LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1828

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required to report to the legislature, in the second week of every
session, a general view of the said statements; therefore,

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland
That so much of the act of November session, seventeen hun-
dred and ninety-four, chapter fifty-three, section two, as requires
the clerk of each county to present to the governor and council
a fair and accurate account of the assessment or rate of each
county, and how the same has been disposed of by the levy
court, and so much of the act of November session, seventeen
hundred and ninety-six, chapter forty-three, section twenty.
three, as requires the said clerks to make out and transmit to
the cleric of the seriate, and to the cleric of the house of dele-
gates, each, a fair copy of the levy lists allowed by the justices
of their respective levy courts, and of the several charges and
sums levied and assessed on their respective counties, be and
the same are hereby repealed.

Acts
repealed.

CHAPTER 85.
A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act to regulate the issuing of
Licenses to Traders, Keepers of Ordinaries, and others, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, chapter one
hundred and seventeen.
See notes to the original law, ante page 928.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said original act shall not be deemed to apply to per-
sons who do not buy or sell with a view to profit in the regular
prosecution of some trade or business.

Original
not to apply
to certain
persons.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the clerks of the several
county courts, and of the city court of Baltimore, upon applica-
tion of the persons interested, and at such time, and in such
manner as they shall find most convenient, be and they are
hereby authorized and directed, to repay (out of any money be-
longing to the state in their hands,) to those whom, at any
time since the first day of May last, they have licensed in
virtue of the said act, a rateable allowance for the interval be
tween the said day, and that on which such license was granted ;
and in licensing hereafter, shall make a like deduction for the
interval between the first day of the preceding May, and the

Money to
be re- paid,
&c.

lime of granting each license: Provided always, that any per-
son who may have obtained a license under said act, since the
first day of May last, shall have the option of using, exercising
or following, his trade or pursuit or calling under the same,
until the expiration of one year after the actual issuing of the
same, in lieu of the deduction or rateable allowance accorded to
him by this section.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any person or persons who
shall commence at any time in the course of the year, shall be

Persons
commen-
cing in the