ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 299

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 6-A of Article 56 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title "Licenses, " sub-title "Mode of Issu-
ing—General Provisions, " be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

6-A. The Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is hereby
authorized and directed to appoint some suitable person who
shall be attached to his office and who shall be designated as
Chief Inspector of State Licenses; and the Comptroller of the
Treasury be and he is hereby further authorized to appoint
three Assistant Inspectors of State Licenses; the compensation
of said Chief Inspector and said Assistant Inspectors to be
fixed in the budget to be submitted by the Governor of Mary-
land and enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland and
the Comptroller of the Treasury is hereby authorized and em-
powered to superintend the issuance of all licenses by the
clerks of the several courts of this State, and he is further em-
powered to investigate, through the said inspectors to be ap-
pointed under this section, the adequacy of all licenses applied
for and issued by the clerks of the several courts of this State
to the end that all persons, firms and corporations required to
procure licenses under the laws of this State shall procure the
same according to the laws thereof, and the said inspectors, with
the approval of the Comptroller of the Treasury, shall institute
proceedings for the prosecution of all persons, firms or corpora-
tions failing to procure a license or a license for an adequate
amount, said prosecution to be in accordance with Section 6
of this. Article, and the Comptroller of the Treasury is hereby
empowered to have general supervision over the license laws of
this State.

Provided, however, that any law or part of a law under
which the State Tax Commission lias exercised or may exer-
cise any authority similar to that conferred upon the State
Comptroller by this section be and it is hereby repealed to that
extent, it being the purpose of this section to concentrate in
the office of the State Comptroller the power to supervise the
issuance of all licenses issued by the clerks of the several courts
of this State, and that this power shall be exercised by no other
official.

Approved April 9, 1924.