1446 . LICENSES. [ART. 56

in this State shall pay to the said clerk the sum of thirty dollars
for a license therefor for one year.

1888, art. 56, sec. 92. 1860, art. 56, sec. 95. 1841, ch. 194, sec. 2.

108. Every person or company who shall exhibit for a reward
any animal or animals or natural or artificial curiosities of any
kind (except models of useful inventions), shall pay to the said
clerk the sum of fifteen dollars for a license therefor for one
year.

Ibid. sec. 93. 1860, art. 56, sec. 96. 1841, ch. 194, sec. 2.

109. Every person, or company of stage players, ventrilo-
quists, slight-of-hand performers, rope dancers, tumblers and
wire dancers, or company of circus riders or equestrian per-
formers, and each or every person or company who shall exhibit
any animal or animals or artificial or natural curiosities of any
kind or sort (except models of useful inventions), in the city of
Baltimore, for a reward, shall, in addition to the tax imposed
by the ordinances of said city, pay to the clerk of the court of
common pleas for a license therefor the following tax, to wit:
for license for theatrical exhibitions, three dollars for each night
of performance; for license to exhibit as ventriloquists, slight-
of-hand performers, rope dancers, tumblers and wire dancers,
ten dollars for each week; for circus or equestrian performers,
three dollars for each night of performance; for license to
exhibit any animal or animals, or artificial or natural curiosities
of any kind, ten dollars for each week.

Ibid. sec. 94 1860, art. 56, sec. 97. 1841, ch. 194, sec. 3.

110. Each license shall contain a list of the personal per-
formances, or animals, or other articles or things to be exhibited.

Ibid. sec. 95. 1860, art. 66, sec. 98. 1841, ch. 194, seo 3.

111. Every itinerant stage-player, ventriloquist, slight-of-
hand performer, rope dancer, tumbler or wire dancer, or com-
pany of circus riders, or equestrian performers, or exhibitors
of artificial or natural curiosities (except the exhibition of
models of useful inventions), who shall perform or exhibit in
any county in this State or in the city of Baltimore without
having paid the tax herein directed shall forfeit sixty dollars
to be collected by the sheriff by distress and sale of the prop-
erty of each delinquent, and to be applied, one-half to the use
of the State and the other half to the use of the sheriff.