Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-06-15

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shall be as follows:
CIRCUsEs, AfENAGERIEs AND HIPPoDRoxEs.
For one day.. 8 so 90
For each side show accompany
ing same, per day, 10 90
THEATERs, NEGRO MINSTREL SHOWS AND
CONCERTS.
For single exhibitions. 5 90
For two exhibitions. ons........... s 90
For three exhibitions. .......... 10 90
For SIX exhibitions. .......... Is 90
And for more than six at the same
rate.
PANoRAMAs.
For single exhibitions. 100000. 90
For each additional exhibition
after first -. ...... 200
PROVIDED, That when the panorama is
exhibited in connection with play and
accompanied by actors, it shall be charged
the same rate as theaters
SEC. 3. Other shows-iDdecent play. |
Every other show or exhibition requiring
license and not mentioned in section two
hereof, shall be charged at the rate of
three dollars per day or twelve dollars per
week: Provided, That no license shall pe
held to authorize the enacting of any
lewd or Indecent play or exhibition with
in the city.
TITLE Nv.
Sec. l. Vehicles licensed-penalty I
No person shall keep or use for hire for
the carrying of persons or property
within the city of Jamestown any cab,
hack, dray, or two horse lumber wagon.
without first having obtained license,
under penalty of ten dollars for each
offensc.
SEC. 2. The city clerk shall charge for
licenses issued under this provision, to be
paid into the city treasury as follows:
For each tw0-hOrse truck or dray used
tor the carriage Of freight or property,
the sum OF six dollars per quarter, or
twenty four dollars per year.
For each one-horse dray, cart, city ex-
press wagon, cab or hack, and for each
common two horse wagon, cab or hack,
the sum of four dollars per quarter; or
sixteen dollars per year.
. Yearly license shall expire on the thir-
tleth day of April next after granted, and
quarterly licenses shall expire on the last
days of April, July, October and January
respectively, after the dates of their
issues.
$3.50 lllLE V. Z
HAwKERs AND PEDDLERs.
SEC. !. Peddlers and hawkers to be
llcensed-Council may exempt residents.
SEC. z. Canvasslng and soliciting or
ders.
SEC. 3. Rates of charges for peddler's
license.
SEC. 4. Statement in application.
SEC. 5. Peddler not to vex or annoy
any person or enter any house without
permission.
SEC. l. Peddlers and hawkers to be
licensed-council may exempt residents. I
No person shall sell or attempt to sell any
goods, article, or thing, Except farm and
garden products, fish, foul or game, offered
for sale by the producer thereof by ped
ding, hawking or public outcry, or at
any temporary or uninclOsed stand or
place OF business within the city, without
first obtaining peddler's license there
for, under penalty OF twenty five dol.
lars for each offense: Provided, that the
city council may, in their discretion, by
vote or resolution, exempt any person,
having been bona fide resident of the
city for SIX months, from the provisions
hereof, or may order license to be grant
ed to such person at lower rate than il
hereinafter specified.
SEC. 2. Canvasslng and soliciting or
ders. Every person canvassing or tax
ing orders for books, pictures, publica-
tions or other articles, shall be deemed
within the scope of this division, and be
required to take out a peddler's license;
but no license shall be required for the
delivery of any article where the order
therefor was taken under q license; if
however, no license was taken out by the
canvasser, the article shall not be deliver
ed without peddler's license: Provided,
that regular commercial travellers en-
ployed by wholesale houses and selling
staple articles of merchandise to the mer-
chants Of the city, shall not be deemed to
be within the meaning of this section.
SEC. 8. Rate of charges for peddler's
license. Licenses granted under this
division shall be charged for at the fol-
lowing rates:
For selling jewelry, ten dollars per
day.
For selling salve, liniment, drugs, med
lcines, cloths, silks, cassimeres, dress
goods, shawls, or table cloths, the sum of
five dollars per day, or twenty five dollars
perweek.
For selling statuary, pictures, books,
or publications other than newspapers
and magazines, or taking orders for the
same, the sum of five dollars per month.
For selling any and all articles not
above enumerated, the sum Of one dollar
per week.
Provided, that cakes, fruit, nuts, can
dies, lemonade, soda and other confec-
tions and refreshments may be peddled
and sold without license except upon the
occasion Of any public meeting or gather
ing within the city, where the city coun-
Gil may, by resolution, provide for licens-
ing the same, and fix q special rate there
for; aud, provided further, that where
the manner OF vending Is by music, songs,
speeches, or other outcry, the rate shsli
be five dollars per day, without regard to
the class or kind of article sold,
SEC. 4. Statement in application,
Every application for peddler's license
shall state definitely the article or arti-
cles to be sold, and the proposed manner
of selling, whether by speeches, songs,
Or otherwise, and the person Ii.
censed shall then be limited to the arti-
cles and mode of sale stated in his appli.
cation, and be protected no further.
Sec. 5. Peddler not to <R or annoy
any person or enter house without per-
mission. No peddler shall vex annoy or
harrass any person by importunlng such
person to purchase look at his goods
nor shall any peddler enter any private
house without being invited to 70 IN,
under penalty Of ten dollars for each
offense.
Sec. 6. All ordinances heretofore pass
ed by the trustees Of the village of
jamestown conflicting herewith are here
by repealed.
Passed June 4, 1888,
Approved June 6, 1883,
Published June Is, 1888.
JEROME ]. FLINT,
JOE D. Mills, Mayor.
City Clerk,