1960 ARTICLE 56.

An. Code, sec. 9. 1904, sec. 9. 1888, sec. 9. 1824, ch. 64, sec. 3. 1826, ph. 219, sec. 2.

1865, ch. 56.

10. Any person keeping or exhibiting for use a billiard table or tables
without first obtaining a license therefor shall, for each and every table
so kept or exhibited, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars, one-
half to the informer and the other half to the State.

The only exception to this section is a table kept for private use. When a table
is for public, and when for private use. Admissibility of evidence. Schmetzer v.
State, 63 Md. 422.

Cited but not construed in Germania v. State, 7 Md. 6.
See notes to sec. 9.

An. Code, sec. io. 1904, sec. 10. 1888, sec. 10. 1824, ch. 64, sec. 7.

11. Nothing herein contained shall impair the rights of the corporations
of the cities of Batimore, Annapolis or Frederick, or the commissioners
of any incorporated town in this State to impose a further tax on billiard
tables.

Brokers.

An. Code, sec. 11. 1904, sec. 11. 1888, sec. 11. 1841, ch. 282, sec. 1. 1842, ch. 257, sec. 2.

12. Any person applying for the same and paying the sum of one
hundred dollars may obtain a license for carrying on the business of
exchange broker.

As to licenses of insurance brokers, see art. 48A, sec. 60, et seq.

An. Code, sec. 12. 1904, sec. 12. 1888, sec. 13. 1868, ch. 448. 1888, ch. 495. 1890, ch. 477.

13. Any person applying for the same and paying the sum of twenty-
five dollars may obtain a license for carrying on the business of real estate
broker. This section not to apply to Baltimore city.

An. Code, sec. 13. 1904, sec. 13. 1888, sec. 14. 1868, ch. 448. 1876, ch. 288. 1888, ch. 495,

14. Any person who shall offer to act as real estate broker by adver-
tisement, sign or otherwise shall be required to take out a real estate
brokers' license, as required by the preceding section, before he shall so
act or advertise. This section not to apply to Baltimore city.

Failure of real estate broker to take out license does not make a contract with .
him as such broker, illegal or unenforceable: Coates v. Locust Point Co., 102 Md. 297.
As to when real estate broker is entitled to commissions, see art. 2. sec. 17.

An. Code, sec. 14. 1904, sec. 14. 1888, sec. 16. 1842, ch. 257.

15. Any person applying for the same and paying the sum of fifty
dollars may obtain a license for carrying on the business of a bill broker.

An. Code, sec. 15. 1904, sec. 15. 1888, sec. 18. 1888, ch. 416. 1890, ch. 420. 1892, ch. 561.

1896, ch. 144.

16. Any person or partnership applying for the same and paying the
sum of thirty dollars may obtain a license for carrying on the business of
grain broker, stock broker, coffee broker, cotton broker, sugar broker or
merchandise broker in the city of Baltimore.