1154 ARTICLE 4.

HORSE DEALERS.

1884, ch. 446. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 647.

661. It shall not be lawful for any person, co-partnership, firm, corpo-
ration, joint stock company, brokers, commission merchants, agents, fac-
tors or other association of persons, to engage in or carry on the business,
trade, occupation or calling or bartering, buying, selling, exchanging or
dealing in horses, mares, geldings, jackasses, jennies or mules, either as
an individual, co-partnership, firm, corporation, joint stock company, com-
mission merchant, agent, factor, broker or other association for said pur-
pose, without first obtaining from the Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas of Baltimore City a license for carrying on said business, for which
every such person, if he desires to carry on said business individually, or
if a firm or association, composed of not more than two persons, or cor-
poration, shall pay the sum of fifty dollars, provided, that all the names
and places of business of said persons so applying shall be inserted in
said license; and if more than two individuals constitute and compose
any such firm, co-partnership, joint stock company or association, then
an additional sum of twenty-five dollars shall be paid for each and every
other individual than the said two constituting such firm, co-partnership,
joint stock company or association, of individuals; and provided, further,
that the said business shall not be carried on in any of the streets, lanes
and alleys of the City of Baltimore.

1884, ch. 446. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 648.

662. Any person, and the individual members of any co-partnership or
firm, the stockholders of any joint stock company or corporation, and any
commission merchant, agent, factor, broker, or the individuals of any
other association of persons so engaged in or carrying on the business,
trade, occupation or calling of bartering, buying, selling, exchanging or
dealing in horses, mares, geldings, jackasses, jennies, or mules, who or
which shall violate any of the provisions of the preceding section, shall
be liable to indictment therefor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
one hundred dollars for each and every offense, one-half thereof for the
use of the State and the other half thereof to the informer; provided,
however, that nothing contained in this or the preceding section shall be
construed to prevent breeders and owners of horses, mares, geldings, jack-
asses, jennies or mules, and owners residing in the counties of this State
and doing business elsewhere than in the City of Baltimore, and all owners
who do not follow the business, trade, occupation or calling of buying,
vending, bartering, exchanging or dealing in horses, mares, geldings,
jackasses, jennies or mules, from offering the same for sale, barter or
exchange, or making sale of, bartering or exchanging such horses, mares,
geldings, jackasses, jennies or mules, as they shall bring to the City of
Baltimore, without a license; and nothing contained in this or the preced-
ing section shall be held to apply to regularly licensed auctioneers in the
City of Baltimore.