Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1864-11-10
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Licenses ... r
Sec. H. And be it further enacted, TIL.
no person, firm, company, or corporation sha
be engaged IN, prosecute, or carry on an
trade, business, or profession, hercinaft,
mentioned and described, until he or the
shall have obtained license therefor in Il
manner hereinafter provided.
Sec. ~. And be IT further enacted, Tn;
, every person, firm, company or corporatio
required by this act to obtain license to e,
gage in any trade, business, or profession (,
which license is required by law, shall regi
ter with the assistant assessor Of the asses.
ment district, in which he shall design to cal
ry on such trade. business, or profession, first
his or their name or style. and in case of
firm or company. the names of the severa
persons constituting such firm or company
and their places of residence second tn
trade, business, or profession for which
license is desired third, the place where sucl
trade. business, or profession is to be carried
on fourth, if "A rectiier the number of har
rels he designs to rectify if peddler, wheth
er he designs to travel on foot, or with one
two, or more horses if an inkeeper, the year
ly rental value of the house and property to
be occupied for said purpose if not rented
| the assistant assessor shall value the same
| All of which facts shall be returned duly GER
! tlted by such assistant assessor both to the rs.
SCISSOR and collector Of the district J; and there
upon. upon payment to the collector or depu.
ty collector of the district the amount as here.
matter provided, such collector or deputy col
| lector shall make out and deliver license fol-
such trade, business or profession.
Sec. 73. And be it further enacted, That
! if any person or persons shall exercise or car
ry on any trade, business, profession. or do
any act hereinafter mentioned, for the exercis-
ing, carrying on, or doing of which trade,
business, or profession, "A license is required
by this act, without taking out such license
as I'm that behalf required, he, she, or they
shall, for every such offence besides being liza
bic to the payment of the tax, be subject to
Imprisonment for term not exceeding two
years, or fine not exceeding five hundred dol
lars or both, one moiety of such fine to the
use of the United States, the other moiety to
the use of the person who shall first give in
formation Of the fact whereby said forfeiture
was incurred a. ."t a'"t
See. I4. And be it further enacted, That
in every license TO be taken out under or by
authority of this act shall be contained and
set forth the purpose. trade, business, or pro-
feSsion for which such license is granted, and
the name and place of abode of the person or
persons taking out the same; If for rcctitier,
the quantity Of spirits authorized tO be rectit-
cd ii by a pedler, whether authorized to
travel on foot, or with [onel or two, or
more horses, the time for which such license
is TO run, and the date or time of granting
such license, and Except i'm the case of auc-
tioneers and pedlers) the place at which the
trade, business, or profession for which such
license is granted shall be carried on: Prori-
aed. That a license granted under this act
shall not authorize the person or persons Tex
cept lawyers, physicians, surgeons, dentists,
cattle brokers, horse dealers, and auctioneers, }
or finn, company, or corporation mentioned
thetIin, Go cxcrciee or esNrrv the traaa h,'si
ness or profession specified Ina such license
in any other place than that mentioned there
in, or otherwise provided (; but nothing herein
contained shall prohibit the storage of goods,
wares, or merchandise in other places than
the place of business, nor the sale by manu-
flcturers or producers of their own goods,
wares and merchandise, at the place of pro-
duction or manufacture, or at their principal
office or place Of business. provided no goods,
wares, and merchandise shall be kept for sale
at such office. And every person exercising
or carrying on any trade, business, or profess
sion, or doing any act for which license is re-
uuired shall, on demand of any officer of in
ternal revenue, produce such license, and un-
less he shall do SO may he taken and deemed
To have no license. And in case any pedier
shall refuse to produce his or her license
when demanded by any officer of internal
revenue, said officer may seize the horse, wa
gon, and contents, or pack, bundle, or basket
or any person SO refusing and hold the same
until the license is produced. And all licenses
granted after the first day of May in any year
shall continue in force until the first day os
May next succeeding, and shall be issued up
on the payment of a ratable proportion of the
whole amount of duty imposed for such Ii
cense and each license so granted shall be
dated on the first day Of the month in which
the liability therefor accrued
See 75. And be il further enacted, That
upon the death of any person or persons Ii
censed under or 10y virtue of this act, or upon
| the removal Of any persons from the house oi
| premises at which the trade, business, or pro-
| fession mentioned in such license was author
/ lied, il may and shall be lawful for the collec'
tor to authorize, 10y Endorsement on such IL
| cense, or otherwise, as the Commissioner o.
Internal Revenue shall direct, the person ol
| persons so removing, as aforesaid, to any 9th
| er place, to carry on the trade, business, ol
| profession specified in such license, at the plac'
to which such person may have removed, o.
! the executors or administrators, or the wife O
child of such deceased person, or the assignee
or assigns of such person or persons So remov
ing as aforesaid, who shall be possessed of ant
occupy the house OF premises before used 70
such purpose as aforesaid, in like manner t
exercise or carry on the same trade, business
or profession mentioned in such license, In o
upon the same house or premises at whicl
said person or persons, as aforesaid, decease,
or removing as before mentioned, by virtue G
such license before exercised or carried on sucl
trade, business, or profession, for or during tn
residue of the term for which such licens
|. was originally granted, without taking ou
any fresh license for the residue of such term
until the expiration thereof: Procided, at,ray'
That a fresh entry of the premises at whic
such trade, business, or profession shall con
tinue to be exercised or carried on, as afore
said shalt thereupon be made 10y and in tn
name or names of the person or persons
! whom such authority, as aforesaid, shall
! granted.
: Sec. IS. And be it further enacted. Tha
, in every case where more than one OF the pul
suits, employments, or occupations herelna
2 ter described shall be pursued or carried on !
the same place by the same person at tn
same time except as therein mentioned, /
G cense must be taken out for each accordin
5 to the rates severally described Prorids
Z That in cities and towns having a less popul'
ton than six thousand persons according
I the last preceding census one license, II SO al
: piled for, may embrace the business of Ian
4 warrant brokers, claim agents, and real e
, tate agents, upon paymen OF the highest {,
i | tol itIthscs w eishSi oAS oA Ss
: pursuits.
e See n. And lie it further enacted, Thi
5 no auctioneer shall he authorized, by Writ,
y of his license as such auctioneerr to emplC
: any other person To act as auctioneer in h
l. behalf except in his Own store OF warehous
It or in his presence, or by virtue of said licen
h to sell any goods OF other property at priva
q sale and any auctioneer who shall sell al
IA gonds or commodities, otherwise than by au
e ton, without having taken out a license I
l, that purpose, shall be subject and liable
l. the penalty imposed upon persons dealing i
n OF retailing, trading, ar selling any such goo
v or commodities without license, notwithstan
II ing any license granted, as aforesaid, for I
IL purpose Of exercising or carrying ON the ira
., of business of an auctioneer; and where su
O. goods or commodities are the property of a
G. person or persons duly licensed to deal in,
5, retail, or trade in, or sell the same, such p'
son on persons having made lawfal entry
at his, her. or their house or premises for su
i'll purpose, it shall and may be lawful for a
T. person exercising or carrying on the trade
u business of an auctioneer being duly licens
or for that purpose, to sell such goods or comm
IT, dities for aud on behalf of such person OF p
&C. sons in said house or premises, without u