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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 28.

AN ACT for the protection of the residents and tax-paying
merchants of the City of Cambridge, in Dorchester County,
against non-resident merchants, in the business of what is
called "fire slaughter or forced sales."

License
necessary.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for any individual,
co-partnership or firm, who are non-residents of the city of
Cambridge, in Dorchester county, to open a room or place of.
basiness, for the purpose of selling goods, wares and merchan-
dise, at auction, or by any temporary expedients at variance
with the regular licensed system of mercantile business in the
said city, without first applying to the clerk of the Circuit
Court of the said county, for a special auction license to sell
in the said city, and to pay therefor the sum of three hundred
dollars, the said license to be non-transferable.

Penalty.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That any individual, copartnership
or firm, who are non-residents as aforesaid, who shall attempt
to violate the provisions of the preceding section, in not hav-
ing procured a license as required therein, shall be subject to
a penalty of one hundred dollars for each offence, one-half to
the use of the State, and the other half to the corporation of
the city of Cambridge.

Effective.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved February 16th, 1894.