•1K50 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Cil. 4!)2

for issuing said license, may obtain a license for carrying on
the business of an insurance broker; provided, however, that
any natural person, bona fide copartnership, or corporation
residing in any of the counties of this state, may, upon pay-
ment of a fee of twenty-five dollars for the use of the state,
and an additional sum of one dollar as a fee to the said com-
missioner for issuing said license, obtain a license to act as
broker as to risks situated in the county only within which he,
they or it may reside. A license issued to a copartnership or
corporation shall authorize only those members of the copart-
nership, not exceeding three in number, who are specified in
the license, or those officers, agents and employees of the cor-
poration, not exceeding three in number, who are specified in
the license, to act for the said copartnership or for the said
corporation thereunder. The insurance commissioner shall
from time to time, upon application, and payment of an ad-
ditional sum of fifty cents in each case as a fee to the in-
surance commissioner, change the designations of members of
copartnerships and of officers, agents and employees of cor-
porations in licenses issued under this section to copartnerships
and corporations. Every application for a license under this
section shall be addressed to the insurance commissioner in
writing, shall set forth in full the name and address of such
applicant and the name and address of each person who pro-
poses to act under a license issued as aforesaid to any co-
partnership or corporation, that each such applicant or person
proposing to act under such license has not wilfully violated
.any of the insurance laws of this state during the past year
and that he will not violate any such law during the term of
the license applied for if issued; that he has not dealt unjustly
with or deceived any citizen of this state or misrepresented the
conditions of any insurance policy or contract; whether or not
he is indebted to any insurance company or general agent by
virtue of any contract as former agent or broker, whether or
not his license as insurance agent or broker has been declined
or revoked in this or any other state for a violation of law;
where and in what business engaged during the past year, and
shall give full answers to the following questions: Do you
understand that it is against the laws of this state (a) to act
as a, broker for any company without license from this de-
partment, (b) to misrepresent the conditions of any policy
contract, (e) to make any discrimination between citizens of
this state in premiums, or in rebating any part of premiums
or commissions, or to twist or attempt to twist policies by