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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 6. Be it enacted, That every itinerant vendor desir-

Deposits to

ing to do business in this State shall deposit with the clerk

be made.

of the court of Common Pleas in the city of Baltimore, or

the clerks of the Circuit Courts in 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, authorizing him

to do business in this State in conformity with the provisions

of this act for the term of one year from the date thereof,

or a proportional part of said sum for any fractional 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 suc-

ceeding the date of their issues. 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 person, but any licensee may have the assist-

ance 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.

SEC. 7. Be it enacted, That all applications for licenses

Applica-

shall be sworn to, shall disclose the names and residences of

tions for

the owners or parties in whose interest said business is con-

licenses.

ducted, 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 com-

missioners or the clerk or officer designated to collect license

fees by any incorporated town or city in this State, shall be

in convenient form and open for public inspection.

SEC. 8. Be it enacted, That before selling under said State

Local li-

license every itinerant vendor shall exhibit the same to the

cense fee.

clerk to the county commissioners, or to the clerk or officer

designated to collect license fees by any incorporated town

or city in this State where he proposes to make sales. And

upon payment to said clerk or officer of a further local

license fee to be ascertained in the manner provided in the

following section, and the proof of payment of all such

other license fees, if any, as are legally chargeable upon local

sales, the clerk or officer shall endorse upon it the words

"Local License Fees Paid," and shall affix his official signa-

ture, together with the date of such endorsement. Any

failure to obtain a local license, if any, and for proper endorse-

ments made on the said license, shall be subjected to the

same penalty as though no State license had been issued.