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displayed on the premises where the machine or device is located,
and that all licenses be prorated quarterly.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 17 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Ed.), title "Licenses", sub-title "Music Boxes", be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments to read
as follows:

17. Every person, firm or corporation keeping, maintaining or
operating for public entertainment within the State of Maryland,
any music box, mechanical player piano, graphophone, or other sim-
ilar mechanical musical device, except an amplifier, played by the
insertion of a coin or token, shall obtain an annual State-wide license
therefor from the clerk of the circuit court of any county, or the
clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City, and shall
pay therefor the sum of $10.00 for each such machine or device [,
and the sum of $1.00 additional for each independent coin-operated
speaker delivering music from an amplifier on the same premises.
Each machine or device licensed shall have affixed to it a metal tag
issued by the clerk, showing that the fee for the current year has
been paid]. The clerk shall issue the license in the name of the
owner of the machine or device, who shall display said license on
the premises where the machine or device is located. All licenses
shall expire on the thirtieth day of April of each year, shall be
transferable, and shall be prorated [monthly] quarterly. Any per-
son, firm or corporation keeping, maintaining or operating any such
machine or device without a license, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined $100.00. All license
fees collected under the provisions of this section shall be paid to
the Comptroller.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
May 1, 1960.

Approved April 3, 1959.

CHAPTER 347
(House Bill 439)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 65 of
Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Licenses", sub-title "Traders", eliminating the compensation
of Clerks of Court from the license fee for selling cigarettes at
retail.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 65 of Article 56, of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Licenses", sub-title "Traders", be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.