The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
[CHAPTER $40.
CENSE-TRADERS.
AN ACT

AN ACT
Entitled an act to repeal sections forty. one forty
two and ffty-six of the Code of Public Cen
eral Laws, article ifty.six entitled "License,' y
subtitle "Traders," and to re-ensct the same
with amendments,
SECTION |. Be 1t enacted by the General AS
sembly of Maryland, That sections forty -one
forty-two and ffty-six of the Code of Public
General Laws, article ffty-six, entitled eli
censes," subtitle TRADERS" be, and the same
are hereby, repealed and re-enacted with amend
ments so as to read as follows:
Section Al. No person or corporation, other
than the grower, maker or manufactu shall
barter or sell or otherwise dispose of, or shall
offer for sale, any goods, chattels, wares or
merchandise within this State without first OBJ
tanning license in the manner herein prescribed ;
provided, persons carrying on the shad and her
ring fisheries in this State, may sell and dispose
of so much salt as may be necessary to cure the
! fish purchased of them during the months of
March, April and May, and no longer, without
license, and that nothing herein contained shall
extend 10 vendors of cakes or to the vendors of
beer and cider who are the makers of such beer
and cider, but nothing herein shall exempt any
vendors of lager beer from the requirement to
obtain license to sell said lager beer.
Sec AZ. When any person, body polite or
corporate shall propose to sell or barter or
dispose of or to offer for sale anything mentioned
| in the preceding section, except spirituous or
| fermented liquors, he shall apply to the Clerk of
the Circuit Court of the county in which he
proposes to carry on such selling or bartering
or dsposng of goods, wares, chatt-ls or mer-
chandse, or, if he proposes 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
license therefor; provided, license to offer for
sale issued by said Clerk of the Court of Com
mon Pleas or by the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of any county shall be good and efficient as a
license to offer for sale in every part of the
State: provided, that such license shall 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 other city or
county than the city or county in which such
license shall be issued but no license to trade or
to sell spirituous or fermented liquors shall be
issued by any Clerk of Court to ftms covert
or to any person under the age of twenty-o ne
years. without the special order of the Judge of
said Court, aad no Judge shall give such special
order to issue such license to sell spirituous or
fermented liquors to feme covert or person under
the age of twenty-one years, unless upon the
recommen dation of at least ten respectable free
holders residents of the ward or districts wherein
said license would be operative, and whenever
any license shall be issued to .feme covert or
minor, the said teme covert or person under the
age of twenty zone years shall be responsible for
all contracts made in the prosecution of such
business under such license, and shall be liable
to be sued therefor in any of the Courts of this
State, and the said feme covert may be sued or
indicted and prosecuted in case OF violation
| by her of the license law of this State, or in
case she should keep disorderly house, as il
she were teme sole, and if judgment be OBJ
tanned against her on any contract execution
shall or may issue in the ordinary way 10 effect
her separate estate; provided, however, that such
responsibility shall in no manner affect or i'm
pair the responsibility of the husband of such
woman or parent of such infant under existing
laws.
Sec. Sc. If the applicant for a license lives
out of the county or city wherein he proposes
to carry on such business of selling, bartering
or otherwise disposing of or Offering for sale
such goods, chattels, wares and merchandise, OF
if the applicant lives out of the State, or is un.
able to apply in person by reason of sickness OF
bodily infirmity, his or her agent may apply fol
license and make the affidavit as hereinbefore
provided.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
rights of the State in all suits or prosecutions
civil or criminal, now pending in any of thu
Courts of this State under said sections, are
hereby saved and reserved, and that the sam'
shall be prosecuted to final determination and
judgment, and the payment of all fines and pen
altes recovered under said judgments shall bt
enforced in the same manner as if the said sec
tons had not been repealed and re-enacted.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That thi
act shall take effect from the date of its passage
HIRAM MCCULLOUGH,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
HERMAN STUMP, JR.,
President of the Senate
Approved February 26, 1880.
VIM. T. HAMILTON,
Governor of Maryland.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is cor
rect copy of an act Of the General Assembl,
of Maryland, passed at the January session
1880.
MlLroN Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates
EUGENE HIaGINs,
Secretary of the Senate