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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

holders, residents of the ward or districts wherein

said license would be operative ; and whenever any

license shall be issued to a feme covert or njinor, the

said feme covert or person under the age of twenty-

one years shall be responsible for all contracts made

in the prosecution of such business under such license,

and shall be liable to be sued therefor in any of the

courts of this State, and the said feme covert may

Prosecuted

be sued or indicted and prosecuted in case of a vio-

for violation.

lation by her of the license law of this State, or in

case she should keep a disorderly house, as if she

were a feme sole, and if judgment be obtained

against her on any contract, execution shall or may

issue in the ordinary way to effect her separate

estate ; provided, however, that such responsibility

shall in no manner effect or impair the responsibility

of thn husband of such woman or parent of such in-

fant under existing laws.

SEC. 56. If the applicant for a license lives out of

the county or city wherein he proposes to carry on

such business of selling, bartering or otherwise dis-

Make affida-

posing of or offering for sale such goods, chattels,

vit.

wares and merchandise, or if the applicant lives out

of the State, or is unable to apply in person by rea-

son of sickness or bodily infirmity, his or her agent

may apply for license and make the affidavit as

hereinbefore provided.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the rights

of the State in all suits or prosecutions, civil or crim-

inal, now pending in any of the courts of this State

Saved and

under said sections, are hereby saved and reserved,

reserved.

and that the same shall be prosecuted to a final deter-

mination and judgment, and the payment of all fines
and penalties recovered under said judgments shall

be enforced in the same manner as if the said sec-

tions had not been repealed and re-enacted.

Effective.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act

shall take effect from the day of its passage.

Approved April 14, 1880.