ART. 56] AUCTIONEER——BILLARDS. 1345

Auctioneer.

1904, art. 50, sec. 7. 1888, art 56, sec. 7. 1886, ch. 507, sec. 5 B. 1887, ch. 10.

7. Every person who shall open a room or place of business for the
purpose of selling goods, wares and merchandise at auction shall be
required to take out a license in the same manner as resident traders;
the amount to be charged for said license to be rated upon the amount
in value of goods, wares and merchandise on hand by said person for
sale in the same manner as licenses are rated to resident traders. This
section not to apply to Garrett county.

Billiards.

Ibid, sec. S. 1888, art. 56, sec. 8. 1798, ch. 113. 1824, ch. 64. sec. 1.

1826, ch. 219, sec. 1. 1860, art. 56, sec. 6. 1865, ch. 56.

1870. ch. 250. 1892, ch. 525.

8. A license may be granted to any person who may apply for per-
mission to keep a billiard table, for which license there shall be paid
the sum of fifty dollars, and for every additional billiard table kept by
the same person he shall pay a license of twenty-five dollars; provided
that all said additional tables shall be kept in the same apartment, and
the word billiard table shall be construed to include pool tables; and
provided further, that any person who shall keep a pool or billiard table
where a charge is made for playing on the same, but the said charge
is returned or is to be returned to the players to be exchanged with
the owner of said table or his agent for money, drinks, cigars or any
other articles of merchandise shall be considered as gambling and such
tables shall be deemed gaming tables for the purposes of this article,
and the person so keeping such table shall be liable to the penalty or
penalties prescribed by the public general laws for keeping a gaming
table or other place of gaming or permitting gambling on his or her
premises.*

This section applies to a corporation and also to a club which charges
for the use of the pool table. The state may tax the amusements of the
people either for revenue, or as a police regulation. Germania v. State,
Md. 6.

Ibid. sec. 9. 1888, art 56, sec. 9. 1860, art. 56, sec. 7. 1824, ch. 64, sec. 3.
1826, ch. 219, sec. 2. 1865, ch. 56.

9. Any person keeping or exhibiting for use a billiard table or
tables without first obtaining a license therefor shall, for each and every
table so kept or exhibited, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dol-
lars, one-half to the informer and the other half to the State.*

The only exception to this section is a table kept for private use. When
a table is for public, and when for private use. Admissablllty of evidence.
Schmetzer v. State, 63 Md. 422.

Cited but not constructed in Germania v. State, 7 Md. 6.

*Young Men's Christian Associations and other educational and benevolent
institutions in Allegany and Frederick counties, are exempted from the opera-
tion of this section—see act. 1908, ch. 643.