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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

pedlar to buy for sale out of the State, or buy to trade,
barter or sell or offer to trade, barter or sell within the
State any goods, wares or merchandise, until they shall
have taken out a license for that purpose, from the
clerk of some one of the circuit courts of this State,
or from the clerk of the court of common pleas of
Baltimore city; which said license shall be renewed
every year, and the said clerk is hereby authorised and
required on application to grant a license under this
hand and the seal of the circuit court, to any person
to travel and trade as a hawker or pedlar from one
year from the date of said license; and for every li-
cense to any hawker or pedlar, to travel on foot,
there shall be paid by 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 bur-
then and wagon or other vehicle, the sum of fifty
dollars; or with two horses or other beast of bur-
then, and wagon or other vehicle the sum of seven-
ty dollars; provided that no such license shall be
granted to any other than a white person, or any
hawker or pedlar, or hawkers or pedlars, in the name
or style of a partnership, firm or company; and pro-
vided also, that no license granted as aforesaid, shall
extend beyond the county in which such license may
issue.

Duty of sheriff
or constable.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That from and after
the first day of May next, any hawker or pedlar who
may be found trading, bartering or selling, or offer-
ing to trade, barter or sell any goods, wares or mer-
chandise without a license as aforesaid, may be ap-
prehended by any sheriff or constable within their re-
spective bailiwicks; and it is hereby made the duty
of said sheriff and constable to apprehend all haw-
kers, pedlars, so buying and 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 bought, traded, bartered or sold,
or offered to buy, trade, barter, or sell any goods,
wares, or merchandise, without license as aforesaid,
he shall impose a fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars nor less than twenty-five dollars, to be re-
ceived as other fines are now recoverable, and to be
paid over to the clerk of the said county, and by him
accounted for and paid into the State treasury.