CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1161

Fraud—Itinerant Vendors.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 189. 1912, sec. 163. 1904, sec. 146. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 1.

225. The words "itinerant vendors," for the purposes of this sub-title,
shall be construed to mean and include all persons, both principals and
agents, who engage in a temporary or transient business in this State, either
in one or more places in one locality, or in traveling from place to place,
selling goods, wares and merchandise, and who, for the purpose of carrying
on such business, hire, lease or occupy any building or structure for the
exhibition and sale of such goods, wares and merchandise.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 190. 1912, sec. 164. 1904, sec. 147. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 2.

226. The provisions of this sub-title shall not apply to sales made to
dealers by commercial travelers or selling agents in the usual course of
business nor to bona fide sales of goods, wares and merchandise by sample
for future delivery nor to hawkers on the streets or peddlers from vehicles.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 191. 1912, sec. 165. 1904, sec. 148. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 3.

227. Every itinerant vendor who shall sell or expose for sale at public
or private sale any goods, wares and merchandise without State and local
licenses therefor, issued as provided in this sub-title, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, or both such fine and
imprisonment.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 192. 1912, sec. 166. 1904, sec. 149. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 4.

228. All persons, both principals and agents, who shall by circular
handbill, newspaper or in any other manner advertise any such sales as those
referred to in the section last preceding, before proper licenses shall be
issued to the vendor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished
by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding
sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 193. 1912, sec. 167. 1904, sec. 150. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 5.

229. It shall be the duty of every itinerant vendor, whether principal
or agent, before commencing business, to take out a State license and local
license in the manner hereinafter in this sub-title set forth, but nothing
herein contained shall affect the right of any municipal corporation or board
of county commissioners to pass such ordinances or orders relative to itiner-
ant vendors as may be permissible under the general law or under their1
respective charters or powers.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 194. 1912, sec. 168. 1904, sec. 151. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 6.

230. Every itinerant vendor desiring to do business in this State shall
deposit with the clerk of the court of common pleas in the city of Baltimore
or the clerks of the circuit courts for the counties, the sum of five hundred
dollars as a special deposit; upon application in proper form, and the pay-
ment of a further sum of one hundred dollars as a State license fee, the said
clerk shall issue to him an itinerant vendor's license authorizing him to do
business in this State in conformity with the provisions of this sub-title for
the term of one year from the date thereof, or a proportional part of said