1108 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 492

company and in the same manner and to the same extent as
if said business had been procured or negotiated directly by
said broker employing said solicitor.

SEC. 67. Non-Resident Brokers. Any duly authorized broker
of any other state of the United States or of the District of
Columbia, residing outside of this state, may negotiate any
contract of insurance within this state or on property located
within this state to the same extent, and on the same terms
and upon the payment of the same fees as are or shall be
required, demanded or exacted by any such state or the Dis-
trict of Columbia, or from citizens of this state negotiating
or transacting a like business in any such state or the District
of Columbia.

SEC. 68. Penalties for Violation of Sections 64, 65, 66 and
67. Any person who shall use or exercise within this state
the business or occupation of an insurance broker or broker's
solicitor, as the case may be, without having procured a license
therefor, as required by sections 64, 65, 66 and 67 of this
article, and each person who employs, and each member of any
partnership, and each officer of any corporation having author-
ity to employ agents, clerks and solicitors, who shall employ
or permit the employment or receive or accept the services
of any broker's solicitor until a license in each such case shall
have been duly issued as provided in section 66, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a penalty of
five hundred dollars for each such offense, one-half for the use
of the state and the other half to the informer.

SEC. 69. Sheriffs Shall Furnish List of Insurance Brokers.
It shall be the duty of the sheriff of the city of Baltimore
and the sheriff of each county throughout the state to furnish
the insurance commissioner, prior to the first day of May in
each and every year, the names of all persons conducting the
business of "Insurance Broker" within the respective juris-
dic tion of each of said sheriffs, for which he shall receive a fee
of fifty cents for each license issued by the insurance commis-
sioner.

FIRE INSURANCE.

SEC. 70. Insurance of Property by Guardians, etc. Any
domestic company may insure the property, real, personal or
mixed, which any married woman may own jointly or in sev-
eralty, in the same manner as if she were femme sole; and any