1566 ORDINARY AND INN KEEPERS AND RETAILERS. [ART. 71

sessions, shall and may exercise a similar power, authority
and discretion.
Downs v. State. 19 Md. 571.

1888, art. 71, sec. 4. 1860, art. 70, sec. 4. 1780, ch. 24, sec. 17.

4. If any ordinary or inn keeper shall harbor, entertain, or
sell any liquor to any apprentice without license in writing
from his master, he shall for every offense forfeit the sum of
ten dollars.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1860, art. 70, sec. 5. 1854, ch. 323, sec 1.

5. Any ordinary or inn keeper in any city or town, having a
population of more than five hundred inhabitants, who shall
provide an iron safe or other secure depository for the keeping
of the money, jewelry and plate belonging to his guests, and
who shall take charge for safe keeping of such money, jewelry
and plate shall be liable for the full value of the same if lost
or stolen while thus in his charge; to be recovered before a
justice of the peace if such value does not exceed the sum of
one hundred dollars, and if over that sum by action of assumpsit
in any court having jurisdiction, unless the -loss occurred
through fire proved to have happened without any negligence
upon the part of himself or his agent.

Pettigrew v Barnum, 11 Md 434. Giles v Fauntleroy, 13 Md. 126.
Burrows v Trieber, 21 Md. 320. Maltby v. Chapman, 25 Md. 310. Trieber
v Burrows, 27 Md. 130.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1860, art. 70, sec. 6. 1854, ch. 323, secs. 2, 3.

6. If any ordinary or inn keeper referred to in the preced-
ing section shall cause written or printed notices to be put in
his chambers and other conspicuous places about his house
notifying his guests of the purport of the preceding section
and requesting them to deposit their money and plate with
him or his agent to be designated by such notice, then he shall
not be responsible for the loss by robbery or otherwise; pro-
vided, such ordinary or inn keeper can prove that he has com-
plied with the provisions of this and the preceding section,
unless such loss occurred from collusion or positive negligence
on the part of such ordinary or inn keeper or his agent.
Ibid

1898, ch. 217, sec. 7.

7. For the price or value of any food or accommodation
furnished to any person at any hotel, boarding house, inn or
ordinary in this State, the proprietor or keeper of such hotel,