HARRY HUGHES, Governor
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produce books, accounts, records, papers and correspondence
touching the matter in question. Any failure to obey such
order of court may be punished by such court as a contempt
thereof.
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 similar, mechanical musical device,
except an amplifier, played by the insertion of a coin or
token, shall obtain an annual Statewide 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. 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 quarterly. Any person, 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.
33.
(a) (1) When any person, body politic or corporate
shall propose to sell or barter, or dispose of, or offer for
sale anything mentioned in § 32, except spirituous or
fermented liquors, he shall apply to the clerk of the
circuit court for the county in which he proposes to carry
on such selling or bartering, or disposing of goods, wares,
chattels, or merchandise[; or if he purposes to carry on
such selling or bartering, or disposing of goods, wares,
chattels or merchandise in the City of Baltimore, to the
clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for a license].
(2) Except as provided in paragraph (3) a
license to offer for sale issued [by said clerk of Court of
Common Pleas or] by the clerk of the circuit court for any
county shall be good and sufficient as a license to offer
for sale in every part of the State.
(3) A license does not authorize the holder
thereof to open or carry on any store or fixed place of
business for such selling or offering for sale in any place
other than in the place of business designated in the
license and in the application therefor, it being intended
that a separate trader's license shall be obtained for each
store or fixed place of business.
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