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and local license in the manner hereinafter in this sub-title set forth,
but nothing herein contained shall affect the right of any municipal

corporation or board of county commissioners to pass such ordinances

or orders relative to itinerant vendors as may be permissible under the
general law or under their respective charters or powers.

1901, art. 27, sec. 151. 1S92, ch 596, sec. 6.

168. Every itinerant vendor desiring to do business in this State
shall deposit with the clerk of the court of common pleas in the city of
Baltimore, or the clerks of the circuit courts for the counties, the sum

of five hundred dollars as a special deposit; upon application in proper
form, and the payment of a further sum of one hundred dollars as a
State license fee, the said clerk shall issue to him an itinerant vendor's
license authorizing him to do business in this State in conformity with
the provisions of this sub-title for the term of one year from the date
thereof, 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.
Every license shall get forth a copy of the application upon which it is
.granted. Such license shall not be transferable, nor give authority to
more than one person to sell goods as an itinerant vendor, either by
agent or clerk, or in any other way than in his own proper person, but
any licensee may have the assistance of one or more persons in conduct-
ing his business, who shall have authority to aid that principal but not
to act for or without him.

Ibid. sec. 152. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 7.

169. All applications for licenses shall be sworn to. shall disclose
the names and residences of the owners or parties in whose interest said
business is conducted, and shall be kept on file by the clerk of the court;
and a record shall be kept by him of all licenses issued upon such appli-

cations... All files and records, both of the clerk of the court and of the
respective clerks to the county commissioners or the clerk or officer des-
ignated to collect license fees by any incorporated town or city in this
State, shall be in convenient form and open for public inspection.

Ibid. sec. 153. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 8.

170. Before selling under said State license, every itinerant vendor

shall exhibit the same to the clerk to the county commissioner's, or to
the clerk or officer designated to collect license fees by any incorporated
town or city in this State where he proposes to make sales. And upon
payment to said clerk or officer of a further local license fee to be
ascertained in the manner provided in the following section, and the
proof of payment of all such other license fees, if any, as are legally

chargeable upon local sales, the clerk or officer shall endorse upon it the
words "Local License Fees Paid," and shall affix his official signature,
together with the date of such endorsement. Any failure to obtain a
local license, if any, and for proper endorsements made on the said