FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

795

SEC. 9. Be it enacted, That any itinerant vendor, before

making any sales of such goods, wares and merchandise,

Statement

shall furnish to the clerk or officers designated in section 8,

of average
quantity

of this act, where any goods, wares and merchandise are

of goods,

&c.

kept or to be kept or exposed for sale or sold by him or

them, a true statement of the average quantity and value

of the stock of goods, wares and merchandise so kept and

exposed for sale. The person furnishing such statement

shall make oath that the same is true, and said oath may

be administered by said clerk or any officer qualified to

administer oaths. Such clerk or officer shall thereupon

ascertain the amount to be paid for the local license, by a

computation based upon the average valuation of such stock

of goods, wares and merchandise so kept or exposed for

sale, in the ratio and of the rate per thousand dollars of

valuation of the last preceding tax levy made in such city

or county, and upon receipt of the amount so fixed and

ascertained shall issue to the person filing or furnishing

such statement a local license authorizing the sale of such

goods, wares aud merchandise within the limits of such

county or city, which license shall be and continue in force

so long as the licensee thereunder shall continuously keep

and expose for sale in city or county such stock of goods,

wares and merchandise, except that such license shall in

any. event terminate and expire on the first day of May next

following its date. If the statement required by this sec-

tion is not filed as aforesaid, the clerk or officer designated

in section 8 of this act, of the city or county in which such

goods are so kept or exposed for sale, or where such itiner-

ant vendor desires to sell such goods, wares and merchan-

dise, shall thereupon fix the sum to be paid for such license,

which sum shall be binding upon the parties.

SEC. 10. Be it enacted, That whoever neglects or refuses

to file the statement required by section nine of this act, or

Fraud-

whoever makes a false or fraudulent representation therein,

ulent

shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars

statements.

nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every day

that such goods, wares and merchandise are kept or exposed

for sale.

SEC. 11. Be it enacted, That whenever a person liable

therefor, and after demand made by the officer or clerk

Refusal to
pay li-

whose duty it is to collect said license fees of the city or

cense fees.

county in which he is located, refuses or neglects to pay the

license fee provided for in this act, the said clerk or officer

may, in his own name, but for the use and benefit of such

city or county, maintain an action therefor in like manner

as for his own debt. Police magistrates in Baltimore City,