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do the business of telegraphing for profit or hire
within this State, and any express or transportation
company, or any person, firm, partnership, associa-
tion or corporation, proposing to do the business of
transporting or forwarding for profit or hire within
this State, of goods or packages of any sort, or of
any article of trade or traffic, shall pay to the Comp-
troller for a license to do such business in this State
for one year the sum of three hundred dollars, or a
proportional part of said sum for any fractional part
of a year not less than one month ; and all licenses
so issued shall be made to expire on the first day of
May next succeeding the date of their issue.
SEC. 7. Service of legal process upon any of the
officers or agents of any person, firm, partnership,	Service of legal process.
association, company or corporation, transacting said business of telegraphing or transporting or forward- ing for profit or hire as aforesaid, within this State,
shall be a sufficient service on the person, firm, part-
nership, association, company, or corporation; pro-
vided a copy of such process shall be placed in the
post-office, by the officer serving the same, directed
to the officer in charge of the principal office of said	Proviso
person, firm, partnership, association, company, or
corporation in the city of Baltimore, and such officer
in making return of such process shall certify to the
court, on the day of said service, that he complied
with the provisions of this section, by placing such
copy in the post-office so directed, with the postage
stamp annexed to the envelope containing the same.
SEC. 8. If any telegraph company, person, firm,
partnership, association, or corporation, shall so do	Penalty for
the business of telegraphing for profit or hire within	doing business without license
this State, or shall open any office or offices for the
transaction of such business, or if any express or
transportation company, or any person, firm, part-
nership, association, or corporation, shall do the
business of transporting or forwarding any article of trade or traffic for profit or hire within this State, or
shall open any office or offices for the transaction of
such business, without having first obtained a license
to transact such business as aforesaid, the company,
person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation,
so offending, shall be subject to a penalty of one
thousand dollars, to be recovered by suit in the name
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