1834.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP 232

CHAPTER 232

PAsed Mar. 18,1835

An additional supplement to an act to regulate the issuing of
licenses to Traders, Keepers oj ordinaries and others, passed
at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty seven,
chapter one hundred and seventeen.

Sheriff required to

testify of persons

reglecting if

cense

SECTION 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the sheriffs of the
different counties of this State, to appear in person or by
deputy, before the grand jury of their respective counties,
and of the city of Baltimore, at the regular sessions of their
respective courts, and then and there point out to the said
grand jury, the name or names of such person or persons re-
turned by him agreeably to the provisions of the fifth seclron
of the original act aforesaid, who have failed to comply with

Jury to present

the provisrons of the said act, and the grand jury having such
information forthwith make presentments of the name or
names of such delinquent or delinquents in the usual man-
ner to then respectrve courts

Prosecutor

Sec 2 And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the attorney General or his ceputy or deputies, to proceed
agarnst the person or persons eo presented, as if an inform-
er sustained by witnesses as heretofore required by law had
caused such presentment or presentments, and to subpoena

witnesses living in the neighborhood of such delinquent or
delinquents as may be presented, to prove opening, setting
up, keeping, using or ownership the booth, stall, shops,
office, store, warehouse, yard, inclosure, vessel, ordinary,
tavern, inn, victualling house, cook shop, oyster house, or
other house, stand, or place, or port of either or any of

Fire and imprison-

ment

these or other building, stand, or place, contratry to the
provisions of the said original act or any of its supplements,
and that upon conviction of the party or parties presented
and prosecuted as aforesaid, the said courts respectively
shall punish him, her, or them, by fine or imprisonment or
both as provided by the said original act and its several sup-
plements.