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off, and shall in all cases be paid by the person making the
sale.

89. No duties shall be chargeable upon any goods, wares, mer-
chandise or other property sold by any auctioneer at private sale
on the days of his public auction, unless the same be sold at the
place of his public auction, or unless the same be part of what
was offered for sale at said public auction, or was advertised to
be sold thereat.

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90*. The duty imposed on all sales of lands, tenements and here-
ditaments, or of any interest therein, at public auction in the
city of Baltimore, shall be a lien on the said property when sold
as aforesaid.

91*. Every purchaser of lands, tenements or hereditaments, or
of any interest therein, purchased at public auction in the city
of Baltimore, shall be entitled to pay the auction duty on such
Bale and to claim the said payment as a credit on his purchase as
aforesaid.

92. All goods and property, of what kind soever, shall in all
cases be struck off to the highest bidder; and where the
auctioneer or owner, or any person employed by them or either
of them, shall be such bidder, the goods or property shall be
subject to the same duties as if struck off to any other person;

but this section shall not be construed to render vaJid any sale
that would otherwise be deemed fraudulent and void.

93. The Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, shall biennially appoint as many auctioneers in the city
of Baltimore as he may think proper; not exceeding twenty.

94. Each person so appointed, the amount of whose sales of
goods, wares, merchandise and personal property of every kind,
exclusive of his real estate sales and sales of houses, shall not
exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand debars, shall,
before entering upon the duties of his office, enter into a recog-
nizance to the State, with two sufficient securities in the sum of
five thousand dollars, conditioned for the payment of the duties
hereinbefore mentioned to the Treasurer of. Maryland, and that
he shall in all things well, truly and faithfully behave and con-
form himself according to the true intent and meaning of this