1868, c. 209 adds to section 11 the following, [Sup. 148:] Insurance 11. Any person applying for the same and paying 1868 c. 209. the sum of one hundred dollars may obtain a license broker. for carrying on the business of insurance broker, and any individual, co-partnership or firm who shall carry on the business of an insurance broker without a license shall be subject to the penalties imposed upon other Penalty. brokers by section seventeen of this article. In force and approved March, 1868. Foreign Corporations and COMPANIES. 1868, c. 213 repeals sections 28 and 29 and re-enacts the same to read as follows: 1868, c. 243. foreign insur Agents of ance compa nies. comp under oath. 28. Any agent or agents of foreign insurance companies doing business or proposing to do business in this state shall pay for his or their license to the troller or treasurer the sum of four hundred dollars annually for each and every company represented by him or them, but before the comptroller shall issue said license he shall require a statement under oath of Statement the true financial condition of the office or offices proposed to be represented by him or them and for which he or they may make application for license, and the comptroller shall also require as a condition precedent to issuing of said license the exhibition of authority Authority to from the parent office or offices to settle losses without the interference of the officer or officers of the said parent office or offices. settle losses. 29. No person shall act as such insurance agent Penalty. without complying fully and entirely with the provisions of section twenty-eight of this article, any person so offending shall forfeit and pay into the treasury the sum of five hundred dollars, one-half of which shall be placed by the treasurer to the credit of the public school fund and the other half to the informer, the whole amount of which shall be recoverable by law Proviso. as other fines and penalties are recovered; provided that nothing in this article shall be so construed as to effect in any way regularly licensed insurance brokers. In force and approved March 28, 1868. NON-RESIDENT TRADERS. 1868, c. 413 repeals 1867, c. 252 [Sup. 149] entitled an act to repeal sections 37, 38, 39 and 40 of this article and substitutes the following therefor: 1868, c. 413. Non-perma 37. No person, not being a permanent resident in nent residents. this state, shall sell, offer for sale, or expose for sale, within the limits of the city of Baltimore, any goods, wares, or merchandise whatever, other than agricultural products, and articles manufactured in the state of Maryland, within the limits of the said city, either by card, sample or other specimen, or by written or printed trade list or catalogue, whether such person be the maker or manufacturer thereof or not, without first obtaining a license so to do. License, how issued. Non-residents not to sell in stores, &c., of licensees. 38. Such license shall be issued to the person or copartnership applying for the same, on the payment of three hundred dollars, and shall run one year from date. 39. No person, whether a resident or not of the city under name or of Baltimore, and licensed to sell therein, shall suffer or permit any person not a permanent resident of the state of Maryland, or the agent or representative of any person or persons not residents of the state of Maryland, and not in his regular employ or service, to sell any goods, wares, or merchandise by sample, card or other specimen, or by written, printed or trade list, under his name or the name of his firm or partnership, or at the store, counting room or warehouse in his occupation or used as his place of business. Penalty. 40. Any person offending against either of the three last preceding sections, shall be liable to indictment, and upon conviction, shall be fined not less than four hundred dollars, nor more than six hundred dollars for each offence, one-fourth to the informer and the other three-fourths to the public school fund of the state; and any and all informers shall be compelled to appear and prosecute any and all violators of this article, or shall be subject to a fine or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the court. In force and approved March 30, 1868. TRADERS. 1868, c. 238 adds the following section to this article: 41. Any trader who has taken out license to sell goods, chattels, wares, merchandise, spirituous, fermented liquors or lager beer, in this state, shall have the privilege to sell out said license to any party purchasing his stock of goods and purchasing or renting his place of business, and the party so purchasing may continue to sell under the license of his predecessor in business until the expiration of said license. In force and approved March 28, 1868 1868, c. 238. may be trans When license ferred. where a ARTICLE LVII. Limitation of Actions. 13. When right to bring suit accrues. 1868, c. 357 adds the following section to this article: When right to accrues. SEC. 13. In all actions to be hereafter brought,1868, c. 357. party has a cause of action of which he has bring suit been kept in ignorance by the fraud of the adverse" party, the right to bring suit shall be deemed to have first accrued at the time at which such frauḍ shall, or with usual and ordinary diligence might have been known or discovered. In force and approved March 30, 1968. ARTICLE LX. Marriages. 5. License or publication of bans: friends. 1868, c. 42 repeals section 5 of this article and re-enacts the same as follows: 1868, c. 42. License or pub. lication of bans. Quakers. Proviso. SEC. 5. No persons within this state shall marry without a license, as hereinafter directed, or before the names of the parties intending to marry shall be thrice published in some church, or house of religious worship, in the county where the woman resides, on three several Sundays, by some minister residing in said county. Nevertheless it is provided that any persons within this state may marry according to the ceremony used by the society of people called Quakers, provided the contracting parties shall sign a certificate to the effect that they have agreed to take each other for husband and wife, and, that the said certificate has been attested by at least twelve witnesses; and provided, further, that the said certificate shall, within sixty days, be recorded either amongst the records of the society to which either of the contracting parties may belong, or in some court of record, in the city or county in which the said marriage may be accomplished. In force and approved February 18, 1868. 1868, c. 23 repeals sections 22 and 24 of this article and enacts the following in 1868, c. 23. Machines, wharves and bridges subject to lien. lieu thereof: SEC. 22. Every machine, wharf and bridge erected, constructed or repaired within this state, shall be subject to a lien in like manner as buildings are made subject under the provisions of this article. or scire facias. 24. The proceedings to recover the amount of any Bill in equity lien under this article, whether upon a house, machine, wharf, bridge, boat or vessel, shall be by bill in equity or by scire facias. In force and approved February 18, 1868. ARTICLE LXIII. 1. What militia to consist of. Military. 2. Maryland National Guard: reserves. 3. Call for volunteers or draft: powers of commander-in-chief. 4. Volunteering or commuting: exemption on payment. 5. Term of service: exemption. 6. Commander-in-chief to appoint enrolling officers: their duties: compensation: bond. 7. Refusing to give name, &c.: penalty. 8 Fines, commutations, &c., disposition of. 9. Exemption from militia duty. 10. Military districts: organization of militia: rules and regulations. 11. Volunteer companies. 12. By-laws of companies of national guard: fines and penalties, how collected. 13 Distribution of uniforms, arms, &c. 14. General staff, what to consist of: term of office. 15. Duties of adjutant-general. 16. Ordnance stores. 17. Duties of officers of general staff. 18. Furnishing uniforms, arms, &c.: bond for safe keeping. 19. Uniforms, &c., property of state. 20. Officers to account for property: suit or bond. 21. Arms, &c., deposited in armories: fine. 22. Injuring, &c., uniforms, &c.: penalty. 23. Wearing uniform off parade, &c.: fine. 24. Selling, &c., uniforms, &c.: penalty. 25. Return of public property to adjutantgeneral: action on bond. 26. Uniforms, &c., exempt from distress, attachment, &c.: horses. 27. Election of officers: appointments: warrants. 28. Commissioned officers: power of gov ernor. 29. Board of examiners: proviso. 31. Armories: rent. 32. Escort. 33. Horses. 34. Oaths and declarations: certificate. 35. Forfeitures. 36. Pay and rations. 37. Organization, &c., continued: proviso. 38. Military year. 39. Military fund: appropriations. 1869, c. 414 repeals 1867, c. 337 [Sup. 162] and enacts in lieu thereof the following sections to be arranged in the Public General Laws under an article to be entitled Military. (Const., Art. IX.) What militia to SEC. 1. The militia of this state shall consist of all 1868, c. 414. able-bodied white male citizens, between the ages of consist of. eighteen and forty-five years, and not exempt by the laws of the United States, except the comptroller, the treasurer, the secretary of state, judges and clerks of ters of any religious denomination. courts of record, registers of wills, sheriffs and minis |