LICENSES. 2039

Intelligence Offices and Employment Agencies.

An. Code, sec. 170. 1916, ch. 704, sec. 170.

232. Each person, firm, agency or corporation maintaining an intel-
ligence office or employment agency in this State before doing so shall
first take out a license therefor by paying an annual tax of ten dollars
for each intelligence office or employment agency.

Laundries.

An. Code, sec. 171. 1916, ch. 704, sec. 171.

233. Each person, firm or corporation, resident or non-resident, doing
a public laundry business in this State shall pay for the privilege of con-
ducting such business, whether worked by hand or other power, by first
taking out an annual license therefor, for each place of business, and
paying the following license fee, viz:

Laundries employing less than five persons................ $ 5.00

Laundries employing not less than five persons, and not more
than ten persons....................................... $ 15.00

Laundries employing not less than ten persons, and not more
than twenty persons................................... $ 50.00

Laundries employing more than twenty persons.......... $100.00

Provided, however, that nothing in this Section .shall be construed to
impose a license tax upon persons who wash bed clothing, wearing ap-
parel, and etc., without laundry machinery who do not keep shops or regu-
lar places of business for public laundry purposes, nor to hotels doing
their own laundering exclusively.

Junk Dealers.

An. Code, sec. 172. 1916, ch. 704, sec. 172. 1918, ch. 344.

234. Each person, firm or corporation dealing in junk within this
State shall pay for the privilege of conducting such business by first tak-
ing out an annual license therefor, for each place of business and paying
the following license fee, viz.:

In cities or counties of 50,000 inhabitants or over, each, per
annum .............................................. $ 30.00

In cities or counties of 10,000 to 50,000 inhabitants, each, per
annum .............................................. $ 20.00

In cities or counties of 5,000 to 10,000 inhabitants, each, per
annum ............................................... $ 10.00

In Baltimore City.................................... $100.00

This section is constitutional and valid. It does not violate art. 15 of Declaration
of Rights; it does not impose a property tax but is a tax upon an occupation; it
is a revenue measure. Power of legislature in prescribing license system, classification
and regulations. Term " junk dealers " is sufficiently clear and definite. State v
Shapiro, 131 Md. 170.