ART. 12. ] LICENSES.

(except models of useful inventions), shall pay to the said clerk the
sum of fifteen dollars for a license therefor for one year.

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00, Every person, or company of stage-players, ventriloquists,
sleight-of-hand performers, rope-dancers, tumblers, and wire-dancers,
or company of circus-riders or equestrian performers, and each or
every person or company who shall exhibit any animal or animals,
or artificial or natural curiosities of any kind or sort (except models
of useful inventions), in the city of Baltimore, for a reward, shall,

Id a 96
1841, c 194, s 2
Stage-players,
etc

in addition to the tax imposed by the ordinances of said city, pay
to the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for a license therefor,
the following tax, to wit: For license for theatrical exhibitions, three
dollars for each night of performance; for license to exhibit as ven-
triloquists, sleight of-hand performers, rope-dancers, tumblers, and
wire-dancers, ten dollars for each week; for circus or equestrian
performers, three dollars for each night of performance; for license
to exhibit any animal or animals, or artificial or natural curiosities
of any kind, ten dollars for each week.

Additional
license

100. Each license shall contain a list of the personal perform-
ances, or animals, or other articles or things to be exhibited.
101- Every itinerant stage-player, ventriloquist, sleight-of-hand
performer, rope-dancer, tumbler, or wire-dancer, or company of cir-
cus-riders, or equestrian performers, or exhibitors of artificial or
natural curiosities (except the exhibition of models of useful inven-
tions), who shall perform or exhibit in any county in this State, or
in the city of Baltimore, without having paid the tax herein directed,
shall forfeit sixty dollars, to be collected by the sheriff by distress
and sale of the property of each delinquent, and to be applied, one-
half to the use of the State and the other half to the use of the
sheriff.

Id s 97
1841, c 194, s 3.
List of
performers, etc

Id s 98
1841, c 194, s. 3.
Fine

102. It shall be the duty of the persons enumerated in the last
preceding section, to exhibit their licenses to any justice or consta-
ble who may demand a view thereof, and if they or any of them re-
fuse or neglect so to do, they shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty
dollars for every such neglect or refusal; and if any such neglect or
refusal shall occur before a justice of the peace, it shall be his duty
forthwith to issue his warrant in the name of the State against the
offender, and upon return, to enter judgment and issue execution
for the said sum of twenty dollars and costs, for the use of the State;
and if such refusal or neglect shall happen before a constable, he
shall arrest the person or persons so refusing or neglecting, and carry
him or them before a justice of the peace, who shall give judgment
and issue execution as aforesaid, one-half to the constable, and the
other half to the use of the State; Provided, that in either case the
defendant shall have the right to stay execution, or appeal from such
judgment on giving security, as in other cases of appeals.

Id s 99
1641, c 194, s 4.
License to be
exhibited to
justice or con-
stable

Penalty.

103. No lecturer upon science, literature, morality, or religion,
shall be required to pay any license whatever.

Id s 100.
1845, c 374, s. 2.
Exceptions.