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(except models of useful inventions), shall pay to the said clerk the
sum of fifteen dollars for a license therefor for one year.

1904, art. 56, sec. 109. 1888, art 56, sec. 93. 1860, art 56, sec. 96.
1841, ch. 194, sec. 2.

111. Every person, or company of stage players, ventriloquists,
sleight-of-hand performers, rope dancers, tumblers and wire dancers,
or company of circus riders or equestrian performers, and each or
every person or company who shall exhibit any animal or animals or
artificial or natural curiosities of any kind or sort (except models of
useful inventions) in the city of Baltimore, for a reward, shall, in
addition to the tax imposed by the ordinances of said city, pay to the
clerk of the court of common pleas for a license therefor the following
tax, to wit: for license for theatrical exhibitions, three dollars for each
night of performance; for license to exhibit as ventriloquists, sleight-of-
hand performers, rope dancers, tumblers and wire dancers, ten dollars
for each week; for circus or equestrian performers, three dollars for
each night of preformance; for license to exhibit any animal or animals,
or artificial or natural curiosities of any kind, ten dollars for each week.

Ibid. sec. 110. 1888, art. 56, sec. 94. 1860, art. 56, sec. 97.
1841, ch. 194, sec. 3.

112. Each license shall contain a list of the personal performances,
or animals, or other articles or things to be exhibited.

Ibid. sec. 111. 1888, art. 56, sec. 95. 1860, art. 56, sec. 98.
1841, ch. 194, sec. 3.

113. Every itinerant stage-player, ventriloquist, sleight-of-hand per-
former, rope dancer, tumbler or wire dancer, or company of circus
riders, or equestrian performers, or exhibitors of artificial or natural
curiosities (except the exhibition of models of useful inventions), who
shall perform or exhibit in any county in this State or in the city of
Baltimore without having paid the tax herein directed shall forfeit
sixty dollars to be collected by the sheriff by distress and sale of the
property of each delinquent, and to be applied, one-half to the use
of the State and the other half to the use of the sheriff.

Ibid. sec. 112. 1888, art. 56, sec. 96. 1860, art. 56, sec. 99.
1841, ch. 194, sec. 4.

114. It shall be the duty of the persons enumerated in the preced-
ing section to exhibit their licenses to any justice or constable who may
demand a view thereof; and if they or any of them refuse or neglect
so to do they shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars for every
such neglect or refusal; and if any such neglect or refusal shall occur
before a justice of the peace, it shall be his duty forthwith to issue his
warrant in the name of the State against the offender and upon return
to enter judgment and issue execution for the said sum of twenty dol-
lars and costs for the use of the State; and if such refusal or neglect