ART. 13.] HOWARD COUNTY. 639

30. If upon the return day of the summons the party shall be
returned summoned, or the summons shall have been left for ten
days at his place of abode, the court or judge shall examine the
case, and if the court or judge shall be satisfied that the party
charged is generally reputed to deal with negroes contrary to
law, or to receive stolen goods, or if the court or judge shall have
good reason to believe that such person deals or receives goods
in the manner aforesaid, the court or judge shall annul and take
away the license of such person.

31. The clerk of the Circuit Court for said county, before
granting any license or permit to any trader or retailer, shall
examine the person applying for the same on oath, whether the
said license or permit is intended to be used for the benefit of the
person only in whose name it is applied for, or for the use or
benefit of any other person, and the said clerk shall not grant
any license to such person if it shall appear that it is not
intended for the sole use and benefit of the person applying
therefor under the penalty of fifty dollars, to be recovered as
small debts, one-half to the informer and the other half to the
use of said county.

32. Whenever any trader or retailer shall be brought before
the Circuit Court or the judge thereof, under section 29 of this
article, the court or judge shall examine by the oath of the party
charged, and any other competent witness, whether the party
charged was dealing on his own account, or on account of some
other person, and if satisfied that the party has been dealing on
account of any other person, the court or judge shall suspend
his license until the end of the Circuit Court then sitting or then
next succeeding, and give the whole case in charge to the grand
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ORPHANS' COURT.

33. The Orphans' Court of Howard county shall be held on
'the first and third Tuesday of every month, and oftener if need
be, according to its own adjournment; and any judge of said
court, in the absence of the others, shall have power to hold the
said court at a stated time of adjournment, only for the purpose
of adjourning.

34. Any two of said judges shall have full power to do any act
"which the said court is or shall be authorized to perform, and any
two of them shall have power to hold court on any day not named