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AN ACT to add to Article eighteen of the Code
of Public General Laws, entitled, "Clerks of
Courts," an additional section, relating to the
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas.
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Passed March
24, 1865.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for Baltimore
city, annually in the month of April, to make or
cause to be made, an alphabetical list of the Barnes
of all the persons, or bodies corporate, or politic,
in the city of Baltimore, in each ward of said city,
who shall be exercising or 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 pur-
pose for which a license is made necessary by the
fifty-sixth Article of the Code of Public General
Laws, and to return such list, or lists to the Grand
Jury of said city, at as early a period as practica-
ble after the first day of May then next enduing,
and the said Clerk shall, within the first week of
the month of April, cause a printed notice to be
inserted in the daily papers of the city, cautioning
all persons and bodies corporate, or politic, whom
it may concern, ito obtain a license or renew the
same, an or before the first day of May then next
ensuing, and said Clerk shall be entitled to and
receive twenty-five cents for every license obtained
by any person whose name shall be contained in
the list or lists so returned by Mm, to be paid by
the party applying for such license, but the failure
of the said Clerk to give the public notice herein-
before directed, shall not be allowed to excuse any
person or persons or bodies corporate or politic
who shall neglect to obtain a license as required
by the Code of Public General Laws.
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Clerk to
make an alpha-
betical list
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