LICENSES 2297

firms and corporations doing business in this State, and apprehend and
take before some Justice of the Peace, all persons, firms and corporations
found doing business without a license, as may be required by law, to
be committed or held to bail for appearance at the succeeding term of the
Circuit Court for the county or Criminal Court of Baltimore City to
answer the charge of selling goods without a license; and upon convic-
tion of any person, firm or corporation for doing business without a license,
as required by law, a fine of not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100)
shall be imposed or imprisonment in the Jail or House of Correction for
not more than thirty (30) days in the discretion of the Court; the pen-
alty herein prescribed not to affect the penalty which may be prescribed
by existing law for the violation of special provisions of the license laws.

Indictment for trading without a license, must set out names of parties to whom
goods were sold, or state that they are unknown. Spielman v. State, 27 Md. 524.

See notes to sec. 8.

1929, ch. 475.

7. All persons, firms and corporations, required to procure licenses
under the laws of this State, who shall fail or neglect to procure the same
within the time prescribed by law, shall pay, in addition to the prescribed
license fee, an additional fee equal to ten percentum (10%) of said license
fee for each and every month thereafter that the fee shall remain unpaid.
Provided, however, that such licensees shall not be deemed to be in default
under the provisions of this section until after the lapse of thirty days
from the date on which they may be required to obtain such licenses.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 7. 1922, ch. 516. 1924, ch. 138.

8. The Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is hereby authorized
and directed to appoint some suitable person who shall be attached to his
office and who shall be designated as Chief Inspector of State Licenses;
and the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is hereby further au-
thorized to appoint three Assistant Inspectors of State Licenses; the com-
pensation of said Chief Inspector and said Assistant Inspectors to be
fixed in the budget to be submitted by the Governor of Maryland and
enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland and the Comptroller of
the Treasury is hereby authorized and empowered to superintend the is-
suance of all licenses by the clerks of the several courts of this State,
and he is further empowered to investigate, through the said inspectors
to be appointed under this section, the adequacy of all licenses applied for
and issued by the clerks of the several courts of this State to the end that
all persons, firms and corporations required to procure licenses under the
laws of this State shall procure the same according to the laws thereof,
and the said inspectors, with the approval of the Comptroller of the Trea-
sury, shall institute proceedings for the prosecution of all persons, firms or
corporations failing to procure a license or a license for an adequate
amount, said prosecution to be in accordance with Section 6 of this Arti-
cle, and the Comptroller of the Treasury is hereby empowered to have
general supervision over the license laws of this State.

Provided, however, that any law or part of a law under which the State
Tax Commission has exercised or may exercise any authority similar to
that conferred upon the State Comptroller by this section be and it is
hereby repealed to that extent, it being the purpose of this section to con-
centrate in the office of the State Comptroller the power to supervise the