1426 LICENSES. [ART. 56

Auctioneer.

Ibid, sec 7. 1886, ch. 507, sec. 5 B. 1888, oh. 10.

7. Every person who shall open a room or place of business
for the purpose of selling goods, wares and merchandise at
auction shall be required to take out a license in the same
manner as resident traders; the amount to be charged for said
license to be rated upon the amount in value of goods, wares
and merchandise on hand by said person for sale in the same
manner as licenses are rated to resident traders. This section
not to apply to Garrett county.

Billiards.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1798, ch. 113. 1824, ch. 64, sec. 1. 1826, ch. 219, sec. 1.
1860, art. 56, sec. 6. 1865, ch. 56. 1870, ch. 250. 1892, ch. 525.

8. 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 the word billiard table
shall be construed to include pool tables; and provided further,
that any person who shall keep a pool or billiard table where
a charge is made for playing on the same, but the said charge
is returned or is to be returned to the players to be exchanged
with the owner of said table or his agent for money, drinks,
cigars or any other articles of merchandise shall be considered
as gambling and such tables shall be deemed gaming tables for
the purposes of this article, and the person so keeping such
table shall be liable to the penalty or penalties prescribed by
the public general laws for keeping a gaming table or other
place of gaming or permitting gambling on his or her premises.

1888, art. 56, sec. 9. 1860, art. 56, sec. 7. 1824, ch. 64, sec 3.
1826, ch. 219, sec. 2. 1865, ch. 56.

9. Any person keeping or exhibiting for use a billiard table
or tables without first obtaining a license therefor shall, for
each and every table so kept or exhibited, forfeit and pay the
sum of five hundred dollars, one-half to the informer and the
other half to the State.
Germania v. State, 7 Md. 1.

Ibid. sec. 10. 1860, art. 56, sec. 8. 1824, ch. 64, sec. 7.

10. Nothing herein contained shall impair the rights of the
corporations of the cities of Baltimore, Annapolis or Frederick,