HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                           833

(b) Prior to issuance of a license or permit under this
article to an employer to engage in an activity in which he may
employ one or more persons, the employer shall file with the
issuing [authority,] AUTHORITY a certificate of compliance with
the State Workmen's Compensation Laws, under provisions and
regulations of the Workmen's Compensation Law. An
employer-applicant may provide, as evidence of insurance, a
workmen's compensation insurance policy number or binder number,
in lieu of submitting a certificate of compliance.

3.

Receipts from licenses issued for billiard tables, bowling
alleys, carnivals, chain stores, cigarettes, [circus,] CIRCUSES,
cleaning, dyeing and pressing, construction firms, garages,
hawkers and peddlers, laundries, motion picture machines, moving
picture shows, plumbers and gas fitters, [restaurant] RESTAURANTS
or eating places, shows, soda water fountains, theatres, traders,
and wholesale dealers in farm machinery shall be accounted for
and paid over as hereinafter prescribed. 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
3 percent 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 restaurants or eating
places, shall not apply in Montgomery County.

9.

It shall be the duty of the sheriffs and constables of the
several counties and Baltimore City and the agents and inspectors
of the Comptroller to make diligent inquiry of all persons, firms
and corporations doing business in this State, and apprehend and
cause the arrest of all persons, firms and corporations found
doing business without a license, as may be required by law, to
answer the charge of selling goods without a license. Any
person, firm or corporation engaging in business without a
license as required by [law,] LAW shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not
exceeding $100 or imprisoned for not more than thirty days; the
penalty herein prescribed not to affect the penalty which may be
prescribed by existing law for the violation of special
provisions of the license laws. If a corporation is found guilty
of violating this section, any officer or agent of the
corporations actually engaged in the unlicensed business is