| 1790.
CHAP.
XV. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
and other vices injurious to the good order of society; for the prevention
thereof in future, |
No person
shall hold a
fair, &c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That no person or
persons whatsoever within this state, from and after the publication hereof,
shall
presume to hold a fair, or set up a booth or stall at any fair or public
meeting, in
any part of this state, or sell, dispose of, barter or exchange, any goods,
wares
or merchandise, of any kind, at any such fair or public meeting, under
the penalty
of five pounds current money for every booth or stall so set up, and for
every other offence prohibited by this act, such penalty to be recovered
by warrant
before a single magistrate, on conviction by the oath or affirmation of
one
credible witness, or by the confession of the party, and to be applied
in the payment
of one half thereof to the informer, and of the other half to defray the
charges of the county wherein the offence shall be committed:
Provided always,
that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or taken to prevent any person
or
persons whatsoever from selling, bartering, or otherwise disposing of,
any of the
produce or manufactures of any of the United States, or selling meat, drink,
or
other refreshments, at the times and places of holding the general or county
courts, or elections, throughout this state; and provided also, that
this act shall
not be deemed or taken to prohibit hawkers and pedlers, licensed by the
respective
county courts to travel and trade as a hawker or pedler, from trading,
buying or
selling, in any other manner than is herein before prohibited, and
that nothing
in this act shall affect or invalidate any charter or privilege granted
by law to any
city, town or body corporate, in this state. |
On complaint,
justice
may issue his
warrant, &c. |
III. And be
it further enacted, That upon complaint made to any justice of
the peace of the county wherein the offence shall be committed, that any
booth
or stall shall have been set up, and be then set up and standing, contrary
to the
provisions of this act, it shall be lawful for such justice, and he is
hereby required,
immediately to issue his warrant to cause the said offender or offenders
to be
brought before him, and upon proof made to him of the premises, by oath
or affirmation of one credible witness, or by the confession of the party,
to commit
the said offender or offenders to the public gaol of the county until he
or
they shall remove and abolish, or cause to be removed and abolished, every
such
booth or stall, and pay the fine imposed by this act. |
Passed December
16. |
CHAP. XVI.
An ACT directing the time, places and manner, of holding
elections for representatives of this state in the congress
of the
United States, and for appointing electors on the part
of this
state for choosing a president and vice-president of
the United
States, and for the regulation of the said election,
and also to
repeal the act of assembly therein mentioned. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is declared by the constitution of the
United States, that
the house of representatives in the congress of the United States, shall
be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of
the several states; that the electors in each state shall have the requisite
qualifications
of electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature; that
until
the enumeration therein pointed out of the citizens of the United States
shall be
made, the number of representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty
thousand
inhabitants, and the number of representatives for this state shall be
six; and that
the times, places and manner, of holding elections for senators and
representatives,
shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof: And
whereas it
is further declared, that for the purpose of choosing a president and vice-president
of the United States, each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature
thereof may direct, a number of electors equal to the whole number of senators
and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the congress
of the
United States: And whereas a convention, duly appointed by the people
of this
state, did, by their act of the twenty-eighth day of April, in the year
of our |
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