ART. 56.] AUCTIONEERS—BILLIARDS. 921

charge of selling goods without a license. This section not to ap-
ply to Garrett county.

Auctioneer.,

1886, ch. 507, sec. 5 B 1888, ch. 10.

7. Every person who shall open a room or place of business for
the purpose of selling goods, wares and merchandise at auction,
shall be required to take ont a license in the same manner as resi-
dent traders; the amount to be charged for said h'cense to be
rated upon the amount in value of goods, wares and merchandise
on hand by said person for sale, in the same manner as licenses
are rated to resident traders. This section not to apply to Gar-
rett county.

Billiards.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 56, sec. 6 1865, ch. 56. 1870, ch 250.

8. A license may be granted to any person who may apply
for permission to keep a billiard table, for which license

there shall be paid the sum of fifty dollars, and for every
additional billiard table kept by the same person, he shall pay
a license of twenty-five dollars; provided, that all said additional
tables shall be kept in the same apartment. This section shall not
apply to any billiard table kept for private use.

Ibid. sec. 7. 1824, ch. 64, sec 3 1826, ch. 219, sec. 2 1865, ch. 56.

9. Any person keeping or exhibiting for use a billiard
table or tables without first obtaining a license therefor, shall,
for each and every table so kept or exhibited, forfeit and pay
the sum of five hundred dollars, one-half to the informer and the
other half to the State.

Germania v. State, 7 Md. 1.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1824, ch. 64, sec. 7.

10. Nothing herein contained shall impair the rights of the

corporations of the cities of Baltimore, Annapolis or Frederick, or
the commissioners of any incorporated town in this State, to im-
pose a further tax on billiard tables.