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where a different mode is especially provided, and all licenses
granted or issued by said clerks shall expire the first day of
May next thereafter, except licenses for fisheries and horse
racing, and if granted for part of year a ratable sum shall be
charged therefor.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1862, ch. 121.

2. Any license may be obtained by partnerships or firms as
well as by individuals; but in all such cases the names of all
the partners of any firm shall be set forth in full in the license
and no license shall protect any person pretending to act under
the same unless he is named therein, or is entitled as a repre-
sentative, or assignee under the provisions hereinafter con-
tained in this article; and the clerk issuing the license shall
enter upon the record of licenses the full names of all the
members of a copartnership to whom such license is issued.

Spielman v. State, 27 Md. 520.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1860, art. 56, sec. 2. 1827, ch. 117, sec. 2. 1826, ch. 85, sec 8.

3. Wherever a particular place for transacting the business
for which a license is obtained is specified in the license, if the
party removes, he may carry on said business at the place to
which he may remove; provided the clerk shall endorse such
removal on the license, which he is hereby directed to do on
application.

1888, art 56, sec. 4. 1860, art. 56, sec. 3. 1828, ch. 85, see 6.

4. If any person who has taken out license shall die, his
widow, executor or administrator may carry on business under
such license for the residue of the time covered by such
license.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1860, art 56, sec. 5. 1828, ch. 85, sec. 1. 1886, ch. 507, sec. 5.

5. Nothing in this article shall be deemed to apply to
persons who do not buy or sell with a view to profit in the
prosecution of some regular trade or business.
Forwood v. State, 49 Md. 531.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1886, ch. 507, sec. 5A. 1888, ch. 10. 1894, ch. 333.

6. It shall be the duty of the sheriff and constables to make
diligent inquiry of all persons doing business in this State and
apprehend and take before some justice of the peace all
persons found doing business without a license, to be com-
mitted or held to bail for appearance at the succeeding term
of the circuit court for the county or criminal court of Balti-
more to answer the charge of selling goods without a license.