ART. 56] LICENSES. 713

Billiards.

1904, art. 56, sec. 8. 1888, art. 56, sec. 8. 1860, art. 56, sec. 6. 1798, ch. 13.

1824, ch. 64, sec. 1. 1826, ch. 210, sec. 1. 1865, ch. 56.

1870, ch. 250. 1892, ch. 525. 1912, ch. 67.

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 ten dollars, and for every additional billiard table kept by
the same person he shall pay a license of five dollars; provided, that
all said additional talbles shall be kept in the same premises; and the
word billiard table shall be construed to include pool table; and pro-
vided 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
article 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.*
History of sections 8, 9 and 10. Although the law applicable to billiard
tables in Baltimore City has been codified in the local code, the licenses
are contemplated to be issued by the state, and the state receives the reve-
nue therefrom; demurrer to indictment overruled. Although the law
excepts the billiard tables which are kept for private use, such exception
need not be negatived in the indictment. The local requirements for the
issue of licenses held to have exclusive operation within the limits of Balti-
more City. Weber v. State, 116 Md. 404.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 2 of the Anno-
tated Code.

9.

See notes to section 8.

10.

See notes to section 8.

Brokers.

1914, ch. 384.

16A. Any person, corporation, member or members of a corpora-
tion or firm who loans money on deposits or pledge on personal prop-
erty or other valuable thing, other than securities or printed evidences
of indebtedness, or who deals in the purchasing of personal property
or other valuable things on condition of. selling the same back again at
a stipulated price, is hereby declared and defined to be a pawnbroker.

1912, ch. 836.

21A. Any person, firm, corporation or association applying for the
same and paying the sum of $50.00 may obtain a license for carrying

*A "saving" clause is contained in section 2 of chapter 67 of the act of 1912,
and by section 3, the act is made effective on May 1, 1912.