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application therefor, it being intended hereby that a separate trader's li-
cense shall be obtained for each store or fixed place of business; but no
license to trade or to sell spirituous or fermented liquors shall be issued
by any clerk of a court to a feme covert, or to any person under the age of
twenty-one years, without the special order of a judge of said court; and no
judge shall give such special order to issue such license to sell spirtuous or
fermented liquors to a feme covert, or person under the age of twenty-one
years, unless upon the recommendation of at least ten respectable free-
holders residents of the ward or district wherein said license would be
operative; and whenever any license shall be issued to a feme covert or
minor, the said feme covert or person under the age of twenty-one years
shall be responsible for all contracts made in the prosecution of such busi-
ness under such license and shall be liable to be sued therefor in any of the
courts of this State; and the said feme covert may be sued or indicted and
prosecuted in case of a violation by her of the license law of this State,
or in case she should keep a disorderly house, as if she were a feme sole;
and if judgment be obtained against her on any contract, execution shall
or may issue in the ordinary way to affect her separate estate; provided,
however, that such responsibility shall in no manner affect or impair the
responsibility of the parent of such infant under existing laws.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 67. 1912, sec. 54. 1904, sec. 54. 1888, sec. 51.
1858, ch. 414, sec. 3. 1916, ch. 632, sec. 54. 1927, ch. 322.

67. An unmarried female engaged in vending millinery, or other small
articles of merchandise whose stock in trade does not at any time during
the year exceed three hundred dollars shall be entitled to license on paying
therefor, six dollars, but if her stock in trade exceeds three hundred dol-
lars she shall pay the same rates as other persons, the amount of her
stock in trade to be ascertained by oath as in other cases.

MOTOR VEHICLES.

PART I.

General Provisions—Applicability.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 171. 1912, sec. 133. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 133.

1929, ch. 319, sec. 171.

171. The provisions of this sub-title are intended to be State-wide in
their effect, and no city, county or other municipal sub-division of the State
shall have the right to make or enforce any local ordinance or regulation
which shall change, alter or affect the speed limits prescribed by this sub-
title, require any registration or licensing of motor vehicles or operators
thereof in addition to the registration and licensing herein prescribed, or
impose upon the owner or operator of any motor vehicle any tax, regis-
tration fee, license fee, assessment or charge of any kind for the use of a
motor vehicle upon any public highway or highways of this State, pro-
vided that incorporated cities, towns, counties, special taxing areas and