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license therefor, he shall be subject to a penalty of five hundred
dollars for each offence, one half for the use of the State, and the
other half to the informer.

HAWKERS AND PEDLERS.

The Act of 1862, ch. 97, repeals sections 21, 22. and substitutes the following:

6. For every such license, not to extend beyond the county
in which the same may be issued, there shall be paid the follow-
ing rates, to wit: for every license to travel on foot, the sum of
forty dollars: to travel with a horse or other beast of burden
and wagon or other vehicle, the sum of fifty dollars; with two
horses or other beasts of burden and wagon or other vehicle, the
sum of seventy dollars. For every such license to extend over
the whole Eastern Shore or the whole Western Shore, there
shall be paid the following rates, to wit: for every license to
travel on foot, the sum of sixty dollars; to travel with a horse
or other beast of burden, or one horse and other beast of burden
and wagon or other vehicle, the sum of one hundred dollars;
with two horses or other beasts of burden and wagon or other
vehicle, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars.

7. No such license shall be granted to any other than a white
person, or to any hawker or pedler in the name or style of a
partnership or company; and but one person shall act under
any such license.

TRADERS.

The Act of 1862, ch. 49, repeals section 42, and enacts the following substitute

8. When any person, body politic, or corporate, shall propose
to sell or barter anything mentioned in the preceding section,
except spirituous or fermented liquors, he shall apply to the
clerk of the Circuit Court of the county in which he may reside,
or if he resides in the city of Baltimore to the Court of Common
Pleas, for a license therefor; but no license to trade, or to sell
spirituous or fermented liquors, shall be issued by any clerk of
a court to a feme covert or to a person under the age of twenty-
one years, without the special order of the judge of the court;