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county such stock of goods, wares and merchandise, except that such license
shall in any event terminate and expire on the first day of May next follow-
ing its date. If the statement required by this section is not filed as afore-
said, the clerk or officer designated in section 232, of the city or county in
which such goods are so kept or exposed for sale, or where such itinerant
vendor desires to sell such goods, wares and merchandise, shall thereupon
fix the sum to be paid for such license, which sum shall be binding upon the
parties.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 198. 1912, sec. 172. 1904, sec. 155. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 10.

234. Whoever neglects or refuses to file the statement required by sec-
tion 233, or whoever makes a false or fraudulent representation therein,
shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than
one hundred dollars for each and every day that such goods, wares and mer-
chandise are kept or exposed for sale.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 199. 1912, sec. 173. 1904, sec. 156. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 11.

235. Whenever a person liable therefor, and after demand made by the
officer or clerk whose duty it is to collect said license fees of the city or
county in which he is located, refuses or neglects to pay the license fee pro-
vided for in this sub-title, the said clerk or officer may, in his own name,
but for the use and benefit of such city or county, maintain an action there-
for in like manner as for his own debt. Police Magistrates in Baltimore
City and justices of the peace in the counties shall have concurrent juris-
diction with the circuit courts in the counties and the criminal court of
Baltimore of such actions and of complaints under section 228.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 200. 1912, sec. 174. 1904, sec. 157. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 12.

236. No itinerant vendor shall advertise, represent or hold forth any
sale as an insurance, bankrupt, insolvent, assignee, trustee, testator, exec-
utor, administrator, receiver, wholesale or manufacturer's or closing out
sale, or as a sale of any goods damaged by smoke, fire, water or otherwise,
or in any similar form, unless he shall before so doing state under oath,
either in the original application for a State license or in a supplementary
application subsequently filed, and copy on the license all the facts relating
to the reasons and character of such special sale so advertised or represented,
including a statement of the names of the persons from whom the goods,
wares and merchandise were obtained, the date of delivery to the person
applying for the license and the place from which said goods, wares and
merchandise were last taken, and all details necessary to exactly locate and
fully identify all goods, wares and merchandise to be so sold.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 201. 1912, sec. 175. 1904, sec. 158. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 13.

237. Any false statement in an application, either original or sup-
plementary, for a license, and any failure on the part of any licensee to
comply with all the requirements of the last preceding section shall subject
said itinerant vendor to the same penalty as if he had no license.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 202. 1912, sec. 176. 1904, sec. 15.9. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 14.

238. All State licenses issued under this sub-title shall expire on the
first day of May next succeeding the date of their issue, and may be, if so
desired, surrendered at any time prior thereto for cancellation.