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under in the county or city therein named before the expiration of the
term therein specified, the benefit of said license for the unexpired term
shall inure to and be continued in his legal representative or assignee upon
application to the proper clerk for that purpose, accompanied by the oath
of the party applying, made before a judge of a court of record and
endorsed on said license that the party or parties to whom said license was
originally granted is or are deceased, or has or have removed from and
ceased to use or exercise the said business in the county or city named in
said license.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 21. 1912, sec. 19. 1904, sec. 19. 1888, sec. 22. 1841, ch. 282, sec. 4.

20. Upon said application and affidavit the clerk shall, by his endorse-
ment on said license, authorize such legal representative or assignee to use
or exercise the business of such broker for the unexpired term in said
license named.

An. Code. 1924, sec. 22. 1912, sec. 20. 1904, sec. 20. 1888, sec. 23. 1841, ch. 282, sec. 4.

21. No individual, copartnership or firm, legal representative or as-
signee shall use or occupy at the same time more than one office or place of
business for the transaction of his or their business, but any individual,
copartnership or firm may hold at the same time a license as a stockbroker,
a license as an exchange broker, and a license as a bill broker upon paying
to the clerk the several sums herein prescribed for a license therefor.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 23. 1912, sec. 21. 1904, sec. 21. 1888, sec. 24. 1841, ch. 282, sec. 5.
1862, ch. 144. 1868, ch. 209. 1868, ch. 448. 1874, ch. 256. 1878, ch. 270.

22. If any individual, copartnership or firm shall use or exercise the
business or occupation of a stock broker, or an exchange broker, or a bill
broker, or a pawn broker, or a merchandise broker, or a real estate broker,
or an insurance broker, or a grain broker, without having procured a
license as required by this article, he shall be subject to a penalty of five
hundred dollars for each offense, one-half for the use of the State, and the
other half to the informer.

This section is a revenue measure, and indicates that there is no illegality in un-
licensed broker's contract. Coates v. Locust Point Co., 102 Md. 296.

Music Boxes.

1937 (Sp. S.), ch. 11, sec. 23B. 1939, ch. 277, sec. 23B.

23. Every person, firm or corporation keeping, maintaining or operat-
ing for public entertainment within the State of Maryland, any music
box, mechanical player piano, graphophone, or other similar mechanical
musical device played by the insertion of a coin or token, shall obtain an
annual Statewide license therefor from the Clerk of the Circuit Court of
any County, or the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore
City, and shall pay therefor the sum of $15.00 for each such machine or
device. Each machine or device licensed shall have affixed to it a metal tag
issued by the Clerk, showing that the fee for the current year has been
paid. All licenses shall expire on the thirtieth day of April of each
year, shall be transferable, and shall be prorated monthly. Any person,
firm or corporation keeping, maintaining or operating any such machine
or device without a license, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof, shall be fined $100.00. All license fees collected under the
provisions of this section, shall be paid to the Comptroller.