ART. 4.] LICENSES. 493

use the license of another with intent to evade the provisions of
sections 658-662 of this article, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and on conviction thereof shall be subject to and pay a
fine or penalty of not less than two hundred dollars nor more
than five hundred dollars for each offence; one-half thereof for
the use of the State, and the other half thereof to the person or
corporation that shall first prefer before the grand jury the
charge against such offender; and any person, copartnership or
firm who shall directly or indirectly act as real estate broker, or
shall undertake the buying or selling of ground rents or other
real estate, or of chattels real, or the leasing of real estate or
chattels real, or the negotiation or sale of mortgage loans on real
estate or chattels real, or the collection of rents for others, with &
view to reward or compensation for such undertaking, shall be
deemed to be carrying on the business of real estate broker
within the meaning of said sections, and be subject to the fines or
penalties herein prescribed.

1888, ch. 495.

660. If any person who has obtained such license shall die or
shall move from and cease to use and exercise the business of
real estate broker in the city of Baltimore, before the expiration
of the term in said license specified, the benefit of said license for
the unexpired term shall issue to and be continued in his legal
representative or assignee, upon application to the proper clerk
for that purpose, accompanied by the oath by the party applying,
made before a judge of a court of record and endorsed on said
license, that the person to whom said license was originally
granted is deceased, or has removed from and ceased to use or
exercise the said business in the said city.

Ibid.

661. Upon said application and affidavit the clerk shall, by
his endorsement on said license, authorize such legal representa-
tive or assignee to use or exercise the business of such real estate
broker in said city for the unexpired term in said license named.

Ibid.

662. No person, copartnership, association or firm, legal repre-
sentative or assignee, shall use or occupy at the same time more