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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

sioners of Caroline county to the sum of ten thousand dollars ;

provided, that no such subscription or subscriptions shall be made

until the question of such subscription or subscriptions shall have

been submitted to the qualified voters of said counties respectively,

and a majority of the qualified voters voting at such election shall

have determined in favor of such subscription or subscriptions,

and the county commissioners of said counties are hereby directed

to submit the question of subscription to said stock to the quali-

fied voters of their respective counties at an election to be held on

the fourth day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and

ninety.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Approved March 27, 1890.

CHAPTER 159.

AN ACT to amend article fifty-six, of the Code of Public Gen-

eral Laws, title "Licenses," by adding thereto certain additional

sections to be known as "Sections thirty-four A, 'thirty-four B,

thirty-four C, thirty-four D, thirty-four E and thirty-four F,"

requiring license from persons employed in business of shipping

masters in Baltimore city.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

To amend.

That article fifty-six, of the Code of Public General Laws of this

State, title "Licenses," be and the same is hereby amended by

adding thereto the following sections.

SEC. 34 A. Every person who proposes to conduct the business

of shipping master or shipping broker in Baltimore city to ship

men as dredgers or employees on vessels engaged in dredging or

catching oysters, shall on or before September first in each year

Procure
license.

take out or procure a license for such business, and shall pay

therefor the sum of fifty dollars, and in case any agent, solicitor

or runner shall be used or employed in connection with such busi-

ness, then an additional license of fifty dollars shall be taken out

and paid for each agent, solicitor or runner so used or employed.

SEC. 34 B. Any person conducting the business specified in the

preceding section, or acting as agent, solicitor or runner for the

same, without having first procured the license as therein re-

Fine.

quired, shall on conviction thereof be subject to a fine of not less

than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or

shall be imprisoned in jail for not less than six weeks nor more

than one year, or both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of

the court.