LAWS OF MARYLAND,

CHAP. 117

His compensation
thereof

the tenth day of May, then next ensuing, and each sheriff shall
be entitled to receive twenty-five cents for every license ob-
tained by any person, whose name shall be contained in the
list or lists so returned by him, to be deducted by the clerk
from the money received for such license, and paid over to
said sheriff; but the failure of any sheriff to give the public no-

His neglecting
do'nt excuse per
sons required to
bave licenses.

tice herein before directed shall not be allowed to excuse any
person or persons, or bodv or bodies corporate or politic, who
shall neglect to obtain a license as required by this act; and

Shall return mon-
thly lists of persons
bound to have li-

censes

each sheriff shall also make and return, or cause to be made
and returued, on or before the Monday next preceding the
last Saturday in every month, besides the month of April, in
each and every year, a list of the names of all such persons, or
bodies corporate or politic, as shall from time to time come
to reside in each election district, in his county, or if in the
city of Baltimore, then in each ward of said city, or whose
names he shall discover to have been omitted in his annual
and previous returns, who by any of the provisions of this
act, are required to obtain a license, and he shall be entitled
to the same compensation out of all licenses that may be ob-
tuned by them.

County clerks to
Snake half yearly
returns to treasu-
rer.

SEC. 6. And be it enactecd That it shall be the duty of the
clerks of the county courts of this state, and of the clerk of
Baltimore city court, to transmit to the treasurer of the Wes-
tern Shore of Maryland, semi-annually, on or before the first
Monday oi May and November, in every year hereafter, lists
and accounts of all licenses which shall by them severally be

Return lists to
grand jury.

granted in pursuance of this act, or any existing law of this
state, and to lay before every grand jury attending his court,
on the first day of their attendance, the returns made to him
by the sheriff of his county, as herein before directed; and a
list of all licenses granted by the said clerk in virtue of this
act, or any existing law of this state, and not by him before
returned to any grand jury, and if any clerk or sherilf shall
wilfully omit to perform aay duty required of him by this act,
he shall on conviction thereof, be fined any sum not less than

Penalty for neg-
lect

one hundred dollars, nor exceeding one thousand dollars, in
the discretion of the court, one half to the use of the informer,
and the other half to the use of the state.

Penalty for selling
without license.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons,
body or bodies corporate or politic, shall sell or barter, or suf-
fer to be sold or bartered in his, her or their dwelling or other
building, or al any place in his, her or their occupation, by his,
her or their agent or servant, or other person whomsoever,
with his, her or their knowledge, airy goods, wares or
merchandise, ar spirituous liquor, without license first had
and obtained as herein before provided, he, she or they
shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars, one half to the
use of the informer, and the othe half to be paid to the clerk
of the county court, or city court, as the case may be, to the
use of the state, to be recovered in the name of the state of
Maryland, by action of debt or indictment in the county
court of the county where such offence shall have been com-