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demeanor for every such violation, and shall be subject to pre-
sentment and indictment in the Criminal Court of Baltimore,
and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceed-
ing two hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars.

266. Every auctioneer, within thirty days after the first
days of January, April, July and October of the year for which
he shall have been appointed, and in each and every year that
he shall hold and continue in the office and duty of such
auctioneer, shall render to the Comptroller of the City of
Baltimore a true and particular account in writing of the
money or sums of money for which any goods, wares or
merchandise, or other property of every kind, shall have been
sold at every sale since entering on the duties of his office, or
since the last account was rendered, of the amount of each day's
sales and the days when sold, distinguishing the sales made by
him personally or in his presence, and those made by his part-
ner or partners or clerk, in consequence of his absence; setting
forth, also, the amount of all goods, wares, merchandise and
other property sent or entrusted to him, his partner or partners
for sale, and by him or them sold at auction, and the days on
which the same were sold, and particularizing the amount of
the several duties chargeable on said sales, duplicate copies of
which said accounts, properly sworn to as required in section
267, shall be transmitted to the Comptroller of the State, by
every such auctioneer, within the said thirty days after the said
first days of January, April, July and October of the year or
years as aforesaid; and every auctioneer shall, within thirty
days after rendering such account, pay over to the said Comp-
troller of Baltimore City, for the use of the State, subject -to
provisions hereinafter contained, all such sum or sums of
money as appear to be due from him to the State for duties,
according to law.

267. The auctioneer making such returns, at the time of
making the same shall take before some Justice of the Peace,
or Judge of a court of record, the following oath: "I, ,
do solemnly and sincerely swear that the account now exhibited
by me, and to which I have subscribed my name, contains a
just and true account of all the goods, wares and merchandise,