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LICENSES. [ART. 56.

in the regular service or employ of his firm or copart-
nership, to sell any goods, wares or merchandise in
any of the modes mentioned in the preceding section,
under his name or the name of his firm or copartner-
ship, or at the store, counting room or warehouse in
his occupation or in the occupation of his firm or
copartnership or used as his place of business, or as
the place of business of his firm or copartnership,
without having first obtained a. special license so to
do, which special license shall be in addition to the
ordinary trader's license of such person or firm as
now required by law and shall license the person or
firm obtaining the same to permit his or their regu-
lar consignors, their clerks or agents not being per-
manent residents of the city of Baltimore, and not
in his regular service or employ, or in the regular
service or employ of his firm or copartnership, to
sell goods, wares, merchandise in any of the modes
above described within the limits of the city of Bal-
timore.

Cost of license.

39. The license mentioned in the thirty-seventh
section shall be issued to the person applying for the
same on payment of the sum of three hundred dol-
lars, and the special license mentioned in the thirty-
eighth section shall be issued by the clerk of the
court of common pleas of Baltimore city to any per-
son or firm permanently residing in said city and
having a license to sell therein, upon the application
of such person or firm, and upon payment by him or
them of the same amount paid by such person or firm
for his or their own ordinary trade license, and such

When to
expire

special license shall expire on the first day of May
next following the issue thereof.

Penalty.

40. Any person offending against any of the pre-
ceding sections, and any person selling under the
authority or permission of a person or firm resident
in the city of Baltimore as provided in the thirty-
eighth section, who shall sell otherwise than in
accordance with such authority or permission, shall
be liable to indictment, and upon conviction shall