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CHAP. 210. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
warrant, twenty-five cents; for serving a warrant for breach of the
peace, twenty-five cents; and for carrying the person before a justice,
and to prison if necessary, twenty-five cents, to be paid by
the party requiring such service. |
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Passed Feb. 19, 1819. |
CHAP. CCX.
An Act providing for the increase of the Revenue of this State,
by
laying a Tax on Brokers and Lottery Office Keepers.
Lib. TH.
No. 6, fol. 439. |
No person to exercise
employment
of broker until he
has obtained a license. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the first day of May next, no person shall exercise
the employment of a broker in buying and selling such bank notes
as by the laws of this state, it is or may be lawful for a broker to
buy or sell, or lottery tickets, until he shall have previously obtained
a license therefor from the governor and council. |
| Broker's oath. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before any broker
shall proceed
to act as such, he shall take an oath, or affirmation, as the case
may be, to the effect following, viz. " I do solemnly promise and
swear, (or affirm, that I will truly, honestly and faithfully execute
the office of broker, between party and party, in all things relating
to the duty of said office, without fraud or collusion, and to
the best of my skill and judgment." |
Not to act until he
has entered with
bond to the state. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no person shall
be admitted to
act as a broker aforesaid, until he shall, with good and sufficient
sureties, to be approved by the treasurer of the western shore of
Maryland, enter into bond to the state of Maryland, in the penal
sum of twenty thousand dollars, conditioned to the effect following:
" The conditions of this obligation is such, that if the above bound
_____ do and shall well and truly use, execute and perform, the
office and employment of a broker, between party and party,
without fraud, collusion, imposition, or any corrupt or crafty devices,
and do and shall faithfully execute every trust committed to
him as a broker, then this obligation to be void, else to remain in
full force and virtue in law." |
Bond to be recorded
in court of
appeals. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the bond so as
aforesaid to be
executed, shall be lodged in the office of the clerk of the court of
appeals, to be by him recorded, and upon any office copy thereof,
suits may be instituted, in which the plea of non est factum shall
not be allowed. |
License to continue
for one year. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the license as
aforesaid shall
have continuance for one year only; and if any person not being
licensed as aforesaid, shall act as broker aforesaid, he shall pay
and forfeit two thousand dollars for each and every offence, to be
recovered by action of debt, one half to the use of him who shall
sue for the same, and the other half to the use of the state. |
Every person obtaining
license to
pay 500 dollars. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every person obtaining
a license
as aforesaid, shall pay therefor the sum of five hundred dollars to
the treasury of the western shore. |
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Passed Feb. 19, 1819. |
CHAP. CCXI.
An Act to prevent Swine from going at large in Queen's Town, in
Queen Anne's County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 440. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that sundry
persons do raise and keep great number of swine, and suffer them |
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