The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-05-16
Local LaOs.
DUBLIC LOCAL LAW.
AUC7TONEES LICENSE LAW
CHAPTER 473.

CHAPTER 473.
AN ACT, to require all auctioneers making
sales IN Baltimore county to pay license fee
SECTION l; BE 1t enacted By the General Assem-
oty o. maryland, That it shall not be lawful for
any person to act as auctioneer in Baltimore
county, in making sale of any real or personal
property of any kind or amount Whatsoever
there situate or being, without having first paid
70 the treasurer of the State of Maryland the
sum OF nifty dollars as license fee, the receipt
OF tne SAID Treasurer for the said amount to be
sufficient license for the auctioneer making
sucn payment to carry on the business of auc-
pioneering in said county for the period of one
year from the date of such recent. and NO
longer, the person acting as auctioneer in said
county Deing hereby required to pay the annu-
al sum OF fifty dollars to the Treasurer of the
State of Maryland.
SEC. 2. 4''d be it enacted, That any person vi
olatng the provisions of section one of this Act,
or seI1ing or attempting to sell as an auctioneer
IN Baltimore county, either on commission, for
per diem or gratuitously, any real estate or
personal property of any kind whatsoever,
without having first paid the license fee pro-
vlded for In the preceding section, he shall be
considered guilty of misdemeanor, and shall
be subject to presentment and indictment, and
snail, on conviction, be fined in sum not less
IMAM nifty dollars nor more than one hundred
dollars tor the first offence, and upon indict
ment and conviction for q second offence shall
be lined In sum not less than one hundred
dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, in
the discretion of the Court, the one-half of all
tines imposed by this Act to 60 to the informer
in the case, and the other half to be paid to the
School Board of the county.
Sec. 3. And be 1T enacted, That whenever any
person shall have paid to the Treasurer of the
State the license fee provided for in the first
section OF this Act and shall die before the ex-
piration of the year for which he has obtained
a license to act as auctioneer, such deceased
persons partner, if he have any, may proceed
to carry on the business of auctioneering under
such license for the unexpired portion of the
year covered by it; and if he die without hav-
ing any such partner, then the personal repre-
sentative of such deceased person may act as
auctioneer for the unexpired portion of the year
covered by such license, or may, with the as
sent of the Treasurer of the State endorsed
thereon, in writing, transfer such license to any
person desiring the same, provided such person
pay to such personal representative not less
than eight dollars and thirty-th three and one
third cents per month for each and every month
for which he can act as auctioneer under such
license.
Sec. 4. And be 1t enacted, That the Treasurer
CT the State shall keep in his Office correct
list Of all persons to whom license shall have
been granted or assigned under this Act, and
OF the dates when granted, and shall give to the
States Attorney of Baltimore county any infor-
nation regarding the same which may be re-
quested by him.
Sec. 5. And be 1t enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the first day of May, eighteen
hundred and seventy-four.
We certify, that the aforegoing is true copy
of an Act passed January Session, 1874.
Approved April 18th, 1874.
AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk House of Delegates.
D. j. McCAULEY,
EDWARD RIDER,
BENZ. F. JORDAN,
County Commissioners for Baltimore Co.
May st.