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title of this article be construed to prevent or conclude, or inter-
fere in any manner with any other proceeding or action (not an
action of distress), undertaken or to be undertaken or prosecuted
by said lessor to recover any rent due by said tenant for the
premises so had or sought to be had again and repossessed as
aforesaid.

LICENSES.

BILLARDS.

1870, ch. 250. P. G. L., (1888,) art. 56, sec. 8.

641 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; and provided, that this section
shall not apply to any billiard table kept for private use.

1865, ch. 56. Ibid. sec. 9.

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

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 56, sec. 8. Ibid. sec. 10.

643. Nothing contained in the two preceding sections shall
impair the right of the mayor and city council of Baltimore to
impose a further tax on billiard tables.

DEALERS IN HAY, STRAW OB HUSKS.

1888, ch, 493.

644. Any person who shall offer to act as a dealer, broker or
middleman in hay, straw or husks, in the city of Baltimore, shall
be required to take out a hay broker's license of one hundred
dollars per annum before he shall so act. Any person who shall
attempt to act as such dealer, broker or middleman in hay, straw
or husks, or who shall sell or engage to sell any of the afore-
mentioned commodities, without first having obtained the license