The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1856-03-15
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLARD FILLMORE,
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
ANDREW JACKSON DoNELSON,

session ON Monday night last, that being
the time limited by law. The Session
comprehcnded fifty-nine working days,
during which upwards of three hundred
and fifty separate laws were passed,
which shows that the time Of the men,
bcrs was Rot idly spent. If the quality
Of tile laws enacted be good III proportion
to the quantity, great advantage must
accrue to the citizens Of the State.
The bill repeating the stamp tax and
reducing the direct tax to 10 cents in
the 500 passed both Houses and is now
the law of the State, having gone into
effect from the date of its passage
Persons having stamped sheets Of paper
on hand can return them and receive
their money back.
Lcster's bill requiring persons intend
ing to sell Intoxicating liquors to pro-
cure the signatures of u majority of heads
Of families within given distance, to
sign their application, was defeated in
the Senate by a vote of II to 9. The
following is the License Law passed,
which on the 1st of May takes the place
of the present license system:
The License Law.
The following is the law to raise addition
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increasing the rates of license to ordinary
keepers and traders:
Sec. L. BE it enacted ny the General As.
semhly Of Maryland, That on aud after the
first day Of May ncNt, it shall not be lawful
corporate within this State, other than the
grower maker or manufacturer of the snccihc
articles which slall therein be EXPOSED for
sale, except such maker or manufacturer AS
hereinafter specified to barter, open, set up,
keep o, rlsc any booth, stall, shop, office, stole
warehouse CT other building yard, enclosure.
vessel, or any other place or part of any
house. building or other place for the purpose
Of selling by wholesale or retail, OF bartciing
any dry goods, groceries, imported dried fruit
glass, crockcry, hardware. drugs or mcdi.
cincs, paints, printed books, stationery, sad
dlcry. gold, silver or plated ware i,wclry,
toys, wearing apparel. sailed provisions or
tobacco, cotton, leather, hides, lime, wrought
or cast non, copper or tin. spiituous or fer
mented liquors i'll quantities greater than
pint, or any other kind of goods, wares or
merchandise, foreign or domestic, without
irst obtaining license in the manner pres
cribed by this act, provided persons carrying
on shad and herring fisheries in this State
may sci or dispose Of SO much sa 1t as may be
Necessary to cure the fish purchased Of them
during the months Of March, April and May
and no longer without license; .ind prorlcd
also that nothing herein contained Shall be
construed 10 extend to vendors of cakes, or to
tho vendors of beer or cider, who are the
makers Of such beer or cider, or to females
engaged in vending millinery Or other small
articles of merchandise, whose stock in trade
shall not exceed five huncrcd dollars; Pfori-
ded nevertheless, nothing herein contained
shall be construed to exempt the establish
ment eflager beer or the vendors thereof.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall he
The duty of the Comptroller to cause TO DC
prepared and distributed licenses answering
to the provisions of this act for the greater
security of the revenue from licenses in the
hands Of the clerks Of the several courts,
passed january session, eighteen hundred and
!if,y two.
Sec 3. And be it enacted. That where any
person or persons, body or bodies corporate
SHAH desire and purpose to sell or barter any
OF the articles, goods, wares or merchandise
enumerated or mentioned in the first section
Of this act. It shall be the duty of such person
or persons, body or bodies corporate to apply
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III which the applicant may RESIDE; or if the
applicant reside in the city of Baltimore
then to the clerk Of the court of common
pleas of Baltimore for a license therefor, and
upon such application, the said applicant
Shall state to said clerk on oath, to I've Ivy
said clerk administered, the amount Of said
applicants stock of goods, wares and mer-
cllandiZe generally kept on hand BY him or
the concern in which he is engaged at the
principal season of sale, or If said applicant
Shall not have been previously engaged in
such trade or business the amount of such
stock he expects 10 keep as aforesaid; and if
it shall appear from such statement, so made
under oath as aforesaid that the amount OF
the applicants stock i'll trade docs not or will
not exceed five hundred dollars, then the sum
of six dollars shall be demanded ard received
by said clerk from said applicant before
granting the license applied for; if more than
five hundred and not more than one thousand
dollars, then the SUN of twelve dollars: if
nofc than one thousand and not more than
two thousand dollars, then the sum of fifteen
dollars; if more than two thousand and not
more than five thousand dollars then the
sum oftwcn!y dollars; if NOE than five thou
sand dollars and not more than ten thousand
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