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LICENSES. [ART. 12.

so issued shall be made to expire on the first day of May next suc-
ceeding the date of their issue

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Service of pro-
cess on local
officers or
agents suffi-
cient.

3 6. Service of legal process upon any of the officers or agents
of any person, firm, partnership, association, company or corpora-
tion, transacting said business of telegraphing or transporting or
forwarding for profit or hire as aforesaid, within this State, shall be
a sufficient service on the person, firm, partnership, association,
company, or corporation; provided a copy of Such process shall be
placed in the post-office, by the officer serving the same, directed to
the officer in charge of the principal office of said person, firm,
partnership, association, company, or corporation in the city of
Baltimore, and such officer in making return of such process shall
certify to the court, on the day of said service, that he complied
with the provisions of this section, by placing such copy in the post-
office so directed, with the postage stamp annexed to the envelope
containing the same.

Id s 3.
Penalty for
doing business
without license

37. If any telegraph company, person, firm, partnership, asso-
ciation, or corporation, shall so do the business of telegraphing for
profit or hire within this State, or shall open any office or offices for
the transaction of such business, or if any express or transportation
company, or any person, firm, partnership, association, or corpora-
tion, shall do the business of transporting or forwarding any article
of trade or traffic for profit or hire within this State, or shall open
any office or offices for the transaction of such business, without
having first obtained a license to transact such business as afore-
said, the company, person, firm, partnership, association, or corpo-
ration, so offending, shall be subject to a penalty of one thousand
dollars, to be recovered by suit in the name of the State of Mary-
land, in any court in this State having jurisdiction over the said
claims; and one-half of said penalty, when recovered, shall be paid
into the treasury of the State, and the other half of the said penalty
shall be paid to the informer.

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Agent acting
without license
guilty of mis-
demeanor.

38. Any person acting as agent for any telegraph company, or
express or transportation company, firm, partnership, association, or
corporation, in violation of the preceding section, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and shall be liable to indictment therefor, and on

Penalty

conviction in any court having jurisdiction, shall be fined not ex-
ceeding five hundred dollars.

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License within
limits of single
county or city
of Baltimore.

39. Any telegraph company, express or transportation company,
person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation, proposing to
do the business of telegraphing for profit or hire, within the limits
of any single county in this State, or within the limits of the city
of Baltimore, or proposing to do the business of transporting or
forwarding for profit or hire within the limits of any single county
in this State, or within the limits of the city of Baltimore, any ar-
ticle of trade or traffic or any package or parcel of goods of any
sort, shall pay to the clerk of the Circuit Court, for the county in
which said business is proposed to be done, or to the clerk of the