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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 113.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article four, Code of Public
Local Laws, title " City of Baltimore," sub-title " Licenses,"
to come in after Section 669, and to be called Section 669 A,
regulating the issuing of licenses to traders occupying one
or more places of business in said City.

New section.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new section be added to article four,
Code of Public Local Laws, title " City of Baltimore," sub-
title "Licenses," to come in after section 669, and to be called
section " 669 A," and to read as follows :

A license
necessary for
each place of
business.

SEC. 669 A. There shall be entered in writing by the clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas upon the face of all licenses
obtained by individuals, firms or corporations to conduct busi-
ness as trades in the city of Baltimore, the name of the street
and number of the house or building, or if there be no num-
ber, a full designation of the location of said house or building
for which a license is applied for; and each license shall only
authorize the transaction of business in one house or building,
unless the individual, firm or corporation shall occupy more
than one adjoining houses or buildings, and said houses or
buildings have open, direct, internal communication with each
other; in that case one license will cover transactions in said
adjoining houses or buildings so arranged and occupied; pro-
vided always, that any firm, individual or corporation may
obtain any number of licenses to conduct business in any num-
ber of separate places of business in said city, upon paying for
each license a sum graded according to the amount of stock or
merchandise generally kept on hand or proposed to be kept on
hand at the principal season of sale in said respective places
of business, according to the Code of Public General Laws,
article 56, sections 37 to 49, or such amendments as may here-
after be added thereto.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 21st, 1894.