320 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

five thousand dollars, conditioned for the payment of the duties
hereinbefore mentioned to the treasurer of Maryland, and that
he shall in all things well, truly and faithfully behave and con-
form himself according to the true intent and meaning of this
law; and shall also pay to the treasurer of Maryland the sum of
four hundred and fifty dollars as a license.

McMechan v. Mayor, &c., 2 H. & J. 41. Same v. Same, 3 H. & J. 534.

1872, ch. 249.

84. Any1 auctioneer paying the license'fee, and executing the
bond prescribed in the preceding section, may make sales of every
description of goods, wares and merchandise of every kind, and
real estate, and may exercise all the rights and privileges of a
general auctioneer to the extent and amount of the sum pre-
scribed in said section; and he shall make, under oath, quarterly
returns to the comptroller of the city of Baltimore, showing the
full amount of his sales of every kind, distinguishing his sale's of
goods, wares and merchandise, and personal effects of every kind,
from his sales of real estate and houses; but any auctioneer tak-
ing out a special license, as provided in section 75, in regard to
auctions in Baltimore city, to sell at public auction, stocks of any
banks or other incorporated institutions, or State or city loans, shall
not be required to make any returns of sales of such securities;
and if any auctioneer under said license shall sell any amount
exceeding the sum named in the last preceding section, he shall
be subject to all the penalties hereinafter imposed upon auction-
eers who shall sell without license.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 96.

85. Each auctioneer so appointed whose sales of goods, wares
and merchandise, and personal effects of every kind, exclusive of
his real estate sales and sales of houses, shall exceed the sum of
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, shall, before he enters
upon the duties of his office, enter into a recognizance to the
State, with two sufficient securities in the sum of ten thousand
dollars, conditioned as hereinbefore prescribed, and shall pay to
the State treasurer the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars as.
a license fee.