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no license shall be issued to permit more than one person or the
members of a bona fide copartnership to act thereunder; pro-
vided, that any person or firm residing in any of the counties of
the State may upon payment of a fee of twenty five dollars
obtain a license to act as broker as to risks situated in the county
only within which he or they may reside; and if such license
be granted for a portion of any year, a ratable sum shall be
charged therefor up to the first day of May next succeeding.

1900, ch. 740.

143C. Any person who shall use or exercise the business
occupation of an insurance broker without having procured a
license therefor, as required by sections 143 A and 143 B of this
article, shall be subject to a penalty of five hundred dollars for
each offense, one-half for the use of the State, and the other half
to the informer.

Ibid.

143 D. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of the City of Bal-
timore and the sheriff of each county throughout the State to
furnish the Insurance Commissioner, prior to the first day of
May in each and every year thereafter, the names of all persons
conducting the business of "Insurance Broker, " within the
respective jurisdiction of each of said sheriffs, for which he shall
receive a fee of fifty cents for each license issued by the Insur-
ance Commissioner.

Minors-Institutions and Societies for the Care and Protec-
tion of.

1900, ch. 316.

156 A. All bodies incorporated or to be incorporated under
the general laws for the purposes of the care, custody, guardian-
ship or protection of minors, generally or of any particular ages
or classes, have the power and authority following:

1. To retain children legally committed or confided to them
until the age of eighteen years in females and twenty-one years
in males.

2. To place out such children in suitable homes, upon such
terms as the managers deem beneficial to the children, subject to