WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1840.

CHAPTER 154

CHAP. 154.

An act regulating the Licenses of Hawkers and Pedlars,
and for other purposes.

Passed Feb. 20,
1841.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the first of April
next, it shall not be lawful for any hawker or pedlar, to
trade, barter or sell, or oiler to trade, barter or sell
any goods, wares or merchandize, until they shall have ta-
ken out a license for that purpose, from the clerk of some

Not to sell with-
out license.

one of the county courts of this State, which said license
shall be renewed every year, and the said clerk is hereby
authorised and required, on application, to grant a license,
under his hand and the seal of the county court, to any
person to travel and trade as a hawker or pedlar, for one

License to be
renewed yearly.

year from the date of said license; and for every license to
any hawker or pedlar, to travel on foot, there shall be paid
by the said hawker or pedlar, to the said clerk, at the
time of his granting the same, the sum of forty dollars; to
travel with a horse or other beast of burthen, or one horse
or other beast of burthen, and wagon or other vehicle, the
sum of fifty dollars; and with two horses or other beasts of
burthen, and wagon or other vehicle, the sum of sixty dol-

Charge for li-
cense limited.

lars; provided, that no such license shall be granted to any
other than a white person, or to any hawker or pedlar, or
hawkers or pedlars, in the name or style of a partnership,
firm or company; and provided also, that no license granted
as aforesaid, shall extend beyond the shore in which such
license may issue.

To be granted
only to white
persons.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That from and after the first
of April next, any hawker or pedlar who may be found
trading, bartering or selling, or offering to trade, barter or
sell, any goods, wares or merchandize, without a license
as aforesaid, may be apprehended by any sheriff or con-

Any person vio-
lating may be
apprehended.

stable, within their respective bailiwicks; and it is hereby
made the duty of said sheriff and constable to apprehend
all hawkers and pedlars so trading without license, and to
carry him, her or them before a justice of the peace of
the county; and on its appearing to said justice that such
hawker or pedlar, or hawkers or pedlars, has or have tra-
ded, bartered or sold, or offered to trade, barter or sell any
goods, wares or merchandize, without license as aforesaid,

Duty of sheriff
or constable.

he shall impose a fine, not exceeding fifty dollars, nor less
than ten dollars, to be recovered as other fines are now re-
coverable, and to be paid over to. the clerk of the said

To impose fine.