684 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

agricultural and other conditions of the State appertaining to
the function of this bureau.)

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 430.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 336 of the Acts of the General As-
sembly of Maryland passed at the Session of the year 1900,
entitled "An Act to prohibit the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Talbot County from issuing license to any person, com-
pany of circus riders or equestrian performers or to any
person or Company to exhibit for reward any animal or ani-
mals or natural or artificial curiosities (except models of use-
ful invention) during the months of August, September and
October in any year, (except to fair associations or persons
authorized by them), and providing penalties for such un-
licensed exhibition," and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments so as to read as follows:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Talbot County
shall not issue license to any person or company of circus riders
or equestrian performers to exhibit in said County, or to any
person or company to exhibit any animal or animals or natural
or artificial curiosities of any kind (except models of useful in-
ventions), during the time intervening between the first day of
August and the fifteenth day of September in any year for a
less sum than one thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every company of circus
riders or equestrian performers or exhibitors of any animal,
animals or natural or artificial curiosities, other than models of
useful invention, who shall perform or exhibit in said county
during the time intervening between the first day of August
and the fifteenth day of September in any year, without first
having obtained such license, shall forfeit the sum of one thou-
sand dollars, to be collected by the sheriff by distress and sale
of the property of such delinquent; provided that nothing in this
Act shall apply to any agricultural fair association duly incor-
porated under the laws of this State, nor to any person or per-