1370 LICENSES. [ART. 56

package or parcel of goods of any sort shall pay to the clerk of the cir-
cuit court for the county in which said business is proposed to be
done, or to the clerk of the court of common pleas of Baltimore city if
the said business is proposed to be done in said city, the sum of twelve
dollars for a license to do said business for one year, or a proportionate
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.

1904, art. 56, sec. 126. 1888, art. 56, sec. 109. 1872, ch. 355.
1S74, ch. 370, sec. 11.

128. Any person offending in any way by violating the provisions
of the preceding section, either as agent or otherwise, shall be liable to
a prosecution therefor and upon indictment and conviction thereof in
any court having jurisdiction shall be fined not less than twenty nor
more than one hundred dollars and shall stand committed until the fine
and costs are paid.

Gypsies.

Ibid. sec. 127. 1004, ch. 485, sec. 1.

129. It shall not be lawful for any roving bands of nomads, com-
monly called gypsies, or any person or persons composing any such
bands, who have no permanent place of abode in the State of Maryland,
to pitch or settle its or their encampment or carry on its or their busi-
ness or transaction or practice their craft within the limits of any county
of this State unless they, or some one of them, shall first obtain from
the clerk of the circuit court for any county of this State a license for
such bands to pitch or settle its or their encampment or carry on its
or their business or practice their craft in said county, for which shall
be paid by the person applying for such license to the clerk of the said
court the sum of fifty dollars, for the use of said county, and a further
sum of fifty cents to the clerk for his fee for issuing the same, such
license to be issued in the name of the band for which such license is
obtained, and if the band for which such license is obtained has no
name by which the same is generally known by its members, then the
party applying for such license shall designate to the clerk what name
he desires such band to be called in the license to be issued, and such
license, when issued, shall not entitle such band named in such license,
or any of its members, to return and pitch or settle its or their encamp-
ments or carry on their business or transactions or practise their craft
after moving beyond the limits of said county.

Ibid. sec. 128. 1904, ch. 485, see. 2.

130. Bands of roving nomads, commonly called gypsies, or any
person or persons composing such band or bands, violating any of the
provisions of. section 129 of this sub-title shall, upon indictment and
conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished