ART. 27] FRAUD. 365

license shall be subjected to the same penalty as though no State license
had been issued.

1904, art. 27, sec. 154. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 9.

171. Any itinerant vendor, before making any sales of such goods,.
wares and merchandise, shall furnish to the clerk or officers designated
in section 170, where any goods, wares and merchandise are kept or to
be kept or exposed for sale or sold by him or them, a true statement of
the average quantity and value of the stock of goods, wares and mer-
chandise so kept and exposed for sale. The person furnishing such
statement shall make oath that the same is true, and said oath may be
administered by said clerk or any officer qualified to administer oaths.
Such clerk or officer shall thereupon ascertain the amount to be paid for
the local license, by a computation based upon the average valuation of
such stock of goods, wares and merchandise so kept or exposed for sale,
in the ratio and of the rate per thousand dollars of valuation of the last
preceding tax levy made in such city or county, and upon receipt of the
amount so fixed and ascertained shall issue to the person tiling or fur-
nishing such statement a local license authorizing the sale of such goods,
wares and merchandise within the limits of such county or city, which
license shall be and continue in force so long as the licensee thereunder
shall continuously keep and expose for sale in city or county such stock
of goods, wares and merchandise, except that such license shall in any
event terminate and expire on the first day of May next following its
date. If the statement required by this section is not filed as aforesaid,
the clerk or officer designated in section 170, of the city or county in
which such goods are so kept or exposed for sale, or where such itinerant
vendor desires to sell such goods, wares and merchandise, shall there-
upon fix the sum to be paid for such license, which sum shall be bind-
ing upon the parties.

Ibid. sec. 155. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 10.

172. Whoever neglects or refuses to file the statement required by
section 171, or whoever makes a false or fraudulent representation
therein, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars for each and every day that, such goods,
wares and merchandise are kept or exposed for sale.

Ibid. sec. 156. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 11.

173. Whenever a person liable therefor, and after demand made by
the officer or clerk whose duty it is to collect said license fees of the city
or county in which he is located, refuses or neglects to pay the license-
fee provided for in this sub-title, the said clerk or officer may, in his
own name, but for the use and benefit of such city or county, maintain
an action therefor in like manner as for his own debt. Station houses
justices of the peace in Baltimore city and justices of the peace in the-
counties shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts in the
counties and the criminal court of Baltimore of such actions and of
complaints under section 166.