ART. 27] FRAUD—ITINERANT VENDORS. 829

State license and local license in the manner hereinafter in this
sub-title set forth, but nothing herein contained shall affect the
right of any municipal corporation or board of county commis-
sioners to pass such ordinances or orders relative to itinerant
vendors as may be permissible under the general law or under
their respective charters or powers.

1892, ch. 596, sec. 6.

151. Every itinerant vendor desiring to do business in this
State shall deposit with the clerk of the court of common
pleas in the city of Baltimore, or the clerks of the circuit courts
for the counties, the sum of five hundred dollars as a special
deposit; upon application in proper form, and the payment of
a further sum of one hundred dollars as a State license fee, the
said clerk shall issue to him an itinerant vendor's license author-
izing him to do business in this State in conformity with the
provisions of this sub-title for the term of one year from the
date thereof, or a proportional part of said sum for any frac-
tional part of a year not less than one month, and all licenses
so issued shall be made to expire on the first day of May next
succeeding the date of their issue. Every license shall set
forth a copy of the application upon which it is granted. Such
license shall not be transferable, nor give authority to more
than one person to sell goods as an itinerant vendor, either by
agent or clerk, or in any other way than in his own proper per-
son, but any licensee may have the assistance of one or more
persons in conducting his business, who shall have authority
to aid that principal but not to act for or without him.

Ibid. sec. 7.

162. All applications for licenses shall be sworn to, shall
disclose the names and residences of the owners or parties in
whose interest said business is conducted, and shall be kept on
file by the clerk of the court; and a record shall be kept by
him of all licenses issued upon such applications. All files and
records, both of the clerk of the court and of the respective
clerks to the county commissioners or the clerk or officer desig-
nated to collect license fees by any incorporated town or city
in this State, shall be in convenient form and open for public
inspection.

Ibid sec. 8.

153. Before selling under said State license, every itinerant
vendor shall exhibit the same to the clerk to the county com-