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deducted from the charge above stated for each expired month,
but not fraction of a month; the license fee or charge herein
prescribed and paid shall be by the said board applied to
the use and benefit of the fund in its charge, created by law and
known and accounted for as the Special Fund.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the person so licensed
as aforesaid, when engaged in the business of detective, shall
have and exhibit when called upon to do so, the license certifi-
cate prescribed and issued by the said Board of Police Com-
missioners, which certificate shall be returned to the said
board on the expiration of the license or upon the demand of
said board.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That any person who
shall, without the license and certificate hereinbefore desig-
nated, engage in the general business of a private detective,
whether for himself or as a member of or as an employee of
any detective agency, firm or corporation in Baltimore City,
or advertise or hold himself out as a private detective in the
said city, or who shall violate any of the provisions of Sections
1, 2 and 3 of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not
more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the Balti-
more City Jail for not more than six months, or by both fine
and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court or Justice
of the Peace trying the same; provided, however, that nothing
in this Act shall apply to any detective, officer of police or
policeman in the regular police force of Baltimore City, nor
to any employee of any corporation not chiefly engaged in the
private detective business but which corporation employee
detectives as an incident to its business.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1910.

CHAPTER 693.

AN ACT to add a new Article to the Code of Public Local
Laws, to be known as "Moving-Picture Machine Operators,"
subtitle "Baltimore City," and be numbered.

Whereas, in most professions in which responsibility as to
damages to persons or property in involved, the custom pre-
vailing or the law of the State of Maryland requires all per-
sons having or wishing to assume such responsibility to be
examined by skilled and competent examiners, said profes-