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before doing so, take out a license therefor, and shall pay an annual license
fee for each place of business so operated, graduated as follows:

In cities or towns of less than 5,000 inhabitants, for each place
of business .......................................... $ 5.00

In cities or towns of more than 5,000 inhabitants, and less
than 10,000 inhabitants, for each place of business........... $ 10.00

In cities or towns of more than 10,000 inhabitants, for each
place of business ..................................... $ 15.00

Construction Firms or Companies.

An. Code, sec. 184. 1916, ch. 704, sec. 184.

246. Any person, firm or corporation accepting orders or contracts
for doing any work on or in any building or structure, requiring the use
of paint, stone, brick, mortar, wood, cement, structural iron or steel, sheet-
iron, galvanized iron, metallic piping, tin, lead, electric wiring or other
metal, or any other building material, or who shall accept contracts to
do any paying or curbing on sidewalks or streets, public or private prop-
erty, using asphalt, brick, stone, cement, wood or any composition, or
who shall accept an order for or contract to excavate earth, rock, or other
material for foundations or any other purpose, or who shall accept an
order or contract to construct any sewer of stone, brick, terra-cotta, or
other material, shall be deemed to be carrying on the business of con-
struction.

Each foreign contraction company, firm or person with its chief office
outside of this State, operating or doing business in this State, directly
or by agent, or by sub-letting contract, shall before doing so, take out a
license therefor and pay an annual license fee of $50.00 if operating in
the City of Baltimore, and the like amount of $50.00 in each county of
this State in which said person, firm or corporation shall operate.

Each resident person, firm or domestic construction company and each
foreign construction company, having its chief office in this State, who
shall carry on the busine'ss of construction as mentioned in this section,
shall before doing so, first take out a license therefor and pay an annual
license fee of $10.00, if operating in the City of Baltimore, and the like
amount of $10.00 if operating in each county of this State in which said
person, firm or domestic corporation shall operate; provided, however,
this section shall not apply to persons, firms or corporations doing a con-
struction business the gross amount of whose orders accepted and executed
does not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum.

This section is not in conflict with art. 3, sec. 29, of Md. Constitution—see notes
thereto. As traverser is a resident of Maryland, he cannot raise question of this
section being unconstitutional, in that it discriminates against non-residents. State
v. Case, 132 Md. 270.

Non-Resident Wholesale Tobacco Dealers.

An. Code, sec. 185. 1916, ch. 704, sec. 185.

247. Each non-resident person, firm or corporation who shall sell at
wholesale any tobacco, cigars or cigarettes for delivery in this State, shall