ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Chapter :i72.

AN ACT to repeal section four of article fifty-
six of the Maryland Code Supplement, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one to eighteen hundred
and sixty-seven, relating to the duties of the
sheriff of Baltimore city and to re-enact the
same with amendments.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-

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sembly of Maryland, That section four of article
fifty-six of the Maryland Code Supplement,
eighteen hundred and sixty-one to eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven, relating to the duties
of the sheriff of Baltimore city, be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments so as to read as follows :
SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of

Repealed and
re-enacted.

Baltimore city annually, in the month of April,
to make or cause to be made an alphabetical
list of the names of all persons or bodies corpo-
rate or politic in each ward of the city of Balti-
more who shall be exercising, pursuing any
business, or be doing any act or thing, or shall
be in the use or occupation of any house or place
for any purpose for which a license is made nec-
essary by this article of the Code, and to return
such list to the grand jury of said city at as
early a period as practicable after the first day

Alpabatical
list.

of May then next ensuing; and the said sheriff
shall within the first week of the month of April
cause a notice to be inserted in the daily papers
of the city, cautioning all persons and bodies
corporate or politic whom it may concern to
obtain a license, or renew the same, on or before
the first day of May then next ensuing, and said
sheriff shall be entitled to and receive fifty cents
for every license obtained by any person whose
name shall be contained in the list or lists so
returned by him, to be paid by the party apply-
ing for each license ; but the failure of said
sheriff to give the notice herein directed shall
not excuse any neglect to obtain a license as
required by the Public General Laws.

Approved April 4, 1888.

Give notice.