196                              Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 167

(1957 Edition), title "Licenses", sub-title "Mode of Issuing—General
Provisions", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

2.  Before any license for billiard or pool table, bowling alley,
chain store, coin-operated vending machine, garage, music box,
restaurant, or soda water fountain, or license for the sale of cigar-
ettes, or hawkers and peddlers, motion picture and entertainment,
construction firm or company, or trader's license, shall be issued
by the clerk of the circuit court for any county or by the clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City, the applicant for
such license shall first file with the clerk, in duplicate, a written
application therefor in such form, and verified in such manner, and
containing such information as may be prescribed by regulations of
the Comptroller. On or before the 10th day of each month the said
clerk shall forward to the State Tax Commission a duplicate copy
of each of the above-named licenses issued by him during the pre-
ceding month, together with a duplicate copy of the application for
each such license. Provided, however, that this Section, insofar as
it relates to licenses for restaurants, shall not apply in Montgomery
County, wherein such licenses shall be issued by the County Manager
or his designated agent, subject to such regulations, fees and charges
in connection therewith and penalties for the violation thereof as
may be prescribed by the County Council.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 3 of Article 56
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Licenses",
sub-title "Mode of Issuing—General Provisions", be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

3.    Receipts from licenses issued for billiard tables, bowling alleys,
carnivals, chain stores, cigarettes, circus, cleaning, dyeing and press-
ing, construction firms, garages, hawkers and peddlers, stallion or
jackass, laundries, motion picture machines, moving picture shows,
plumbers and gasfitters, restaurant or eating places, shows, soda
water fountains, theatres, traders and wholesale dealers in farm
machinery shall be accounted for and paid over as hereinafter pre-
scribed. The clerk issuing any of the licenses enumerated herein shall
retain as a fee of his office the present percentage of license revenues
as authorized by law and the additional issuance fee now allowed
and a further three percent (3%) of license revenues to be paid into
the general fund of the State to defray the expenses of the State
License Bureau. All net proceeds received from the said licenses
remaining after the deductions hereinabove authorized shall be paid
by the said clerks to the incorporated town or city in which the
licensed business or activity is located. Where the licensed business
or activity is not located in an incorporated town or city, the net
proceeds shall be paid to the county in which the licensed business
or activity is located, provided however, that the provisions of this
section shall be construed to apply only to licenses issued after
June 30, 1947 '[.] , and provided further, that this Section, insofar
as it relates to restaurant or eating places, shall not apply in Mont-
gomery County.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Section 9 of Article
56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Li-
censes", sub-title "Mode of Issuing—General Provisions", be and it