1841.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 194.

Entitled to
fees only.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the justices of the magis-
trates courts in said county shall not hereafter be entitled
to receive any per diem, allowance for their services, but
shall be entitled to all the fees that may be by them recov-
ered in the discharge of their duties.

Repealed.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of
acts inconsistent with the above provisions, be and the same
are hereby repealed so far as the same relate to Charles
county.

CHAPTER 194.

Passed March
3, 1842.

An act to impose a Tax upon, and to License Theatrical and
other Public Exhibitions, and for other purposes.

License.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act, no
person or company of stage players, ventriloquists, sleight
of hand performers, rope dances, tumblers and wire dan-
cers or company of circus riders or equestrian performers,
and each and every person or company who shall exhibit
any animal, animals or natural or artificial curiosities of any
kind or sort, (except models of useful inventions, ) for a re-
ward, shall previously to exhibiting or performing in any
county in this State, (Baltimore city excepted, and which is
herein after provided for, ) pay to the clerk of the county
thereof thirty dollars, and any and every person or company
who shall exhibit any natural or artificial curiosity of any
kind or sort shall pay the sum of fifteen dollars for the use
of the State.

Tax—rates.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That in addition to the tax
now required to be paid or secured to be paid to the register
of Baltimore city by the eighteenth section of an ordinance
entitled, an ordinance for restraining gaming and licensing
theatrical and other public exhibitions within the city of
Baltimore, approved May the twenty-second, eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-eight, it shall be and is hereby declared to
be the duty of each and every person or company of stage
players, ventriloquists, sleight of hand performers, rope
dancers, tumblers and wire dancers or company of circus
riders, or equestrian performers, and of each and every per-
son or company who shall exhibit any animal or animals or
artificial or natural curiosities of any kind or sort (except
models of useful inventions, ) for a reward, to pay the follow-
ing tax to the clerk of Baltimore county court, for the use
of the Stale, to wit: for licenses to theatrical exhibitions,