2040 ARTICLE 56.

Trading Stamp Companies.

An. Code, sec. 173. 1916, ch. 704, sec. 173.

235. Every -person, firm, association and corporation of this State
or carrying on business therein, who shall sell or deliver any stamps, cou-
pons, tickets, certificates or other similar devices which are or may be re-
deemable for merchandise, other than a manufacturer or packer issuing
such stamps, coupons, tickets, certificates, labels or other similar devices
around or in connection with his, their or its own products, to any other
person, firm, association or corporation, in connection with any sale by
such other person, firm, association or corporation, of any goods, wares
or merchandise, shall before so doing take out an annual license therefor
and shall pay an annual license fee of fifteen hundred dollars; and every
manufacturer or packer who shall furnish, sell or deliver any such stamps,
coupons, tickets, certificates, labels, or other similar devices with or in
connection with the sale of his, her or its own manufactured or processed
products to any other person, firm, association or corporation for use as
above set out by such other person, firm, association or corporation, shall,
before so doing, take out an annual license therefor and pay an annual
license fee of fifty dollars.

This section is constitutional and valid. Police power of state; classification of
conditions to which it is applicable; arbitrary discrimination, denied; application
of section. Cases reviewed; views of court of appeals revised. Where traverser
does not belong to either of two classes against which he alleges a statute discrimi-
nates, he cannot raise question of its constitutionality on that ground. State v.
Seney Co., 134 Md. 437.

See art. 27, sec. 504, et seq.

Wholesale Dealers in Farm Machinery.

An. Code, sec. 174. 1916, ch. 704, sec. 174.

236. Every person, firm or corporation, resident or non-resident deal-
ing in farm machinery at wholesale in this State, whether through agents
or otherwise, shall before doing so, take out a license therefor for the
privilege of conducting such business and paying an annual license fee
of fifty dollars in cities or towns of not more than ten thousand inhabi-
tants ; one hundred dollars in cities and towns of more than ten thousand,
and not more than fifty thousand inhabitants; and two hundred dollars
in cities or towns of more than fifty thousand inhabitants.

Soda Water Fountains.

An. Code, sec. 175. 1916, ch. 704, sec. 175. 1920, ch. 504, sec. 175. 1922, ch. 257.

237. Each person, firm or corporation operating a soda fountain in
this State shall, before doing so take out a license therefor for the privi-
lege of conducting such business and paying an annual license fee of
$25.00 for each fountain so operated in the City of Baltimore or in each
county of this State; provided that in towns and unincorporated places
having a population of less than one thousand, according to the latest
Federal census, the license fee shall be $10.00 for each fountain so operated.