Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-06-15
CITY ORDINANCES
NO. IS.
LICENSE.
TITLE l.

LICENSE.
TITLE l.
AUCTIONS AND AUcTIoNEERs.
&c it ordained by the city council of the
city of Jamestown.
SEC. l. Auction License. No sale of
goods, chattels or personal property, at
auction, except sales made under legal
process, and sales of thoroughbred or i'm
ported live stock, sold for breeding pur-
poses, shall be made except by an auction
eer or other person who shall first have OBJ
tanned from the City Clerk license, and
executed bond to said city as hereln-
after provided.
SEC. 2. Bond of Auctioneer.] No per-
son shall receive license to sell goods at
auction in said city until he shall first
have executed to said city bend in the
penal sum Of of five hundred dollars, with
two or more securities residing within
SAID city, to be approved by the City
Clerk, conditioned for the strict observ-
ance Of all ordinances Of said city respect
ing auctions and auctioneers, and also for
the psymentto said city of all moneys be-
longing to the same which may come into
his hands as such auctioneer
SEC.3. License issued quarterly-Appli-
| license granted under the provisions OF
this chapter five dollars per month pay
able III advance, aud no license shall be
granted for shorter period than three
months. Every applicant for such license
having or protesting TO have a regular
auction store or fixed place of business
shall state in his written application the
! location of SAID store or place of business.
| SEC. 4. License not transferable
Agent may sell-Place of Business, etc.
No license issued under the provisions Of
this chapter shall be transferable, or be
held to authorize any person other than
the one named therein, or his agent or
servant to sell or cry goods at auction,
| and such agent or servant shall only be
authorized to auction goods when it may
be necessary to rest his employer, or
when from sickness or other emergency
such employer is unable to do the busi-
ness himself ,andin no case shallany license
| be held to authorize any two persons to
sell der 1t at one and the same time, or
to cover more than one place of business
or to authorize auction sales at any other
than the regular place of business of the
person receiving such license, if he have
such regular place; Provided, that any
auctionecr may, by first notifying the
City Clerk, change the location OF his
place of business, in which case the IL
ccnse shall DC held to cover such new
place; and, Provided further, that any
licensed auctioneer may temporarily leave
his regular place of business and sell
where situate, any property which can
not conveniently be removed to such place
of business.
SEc.5 One per cent. OF receipts to be
paid to the city In addition to the IL
cense fees to be paid by auctioneers, as in
this chapter provided, it shall be the duty
of every person selling any goods, chat
tells or personal property at auction, to
pay into the city treasury one per cent.
made by him within the city, by virtue of
his license.
SEC g. Book to be kept - Monthly
statement Every person licensed as
aforesaid shall procure and keep book,
which shall be subject to the in
spection of any city officer, in
which he shall keep correct account of
all sales made by such auctioueer, and
the gross receipts therefor: and every
such person shall, at the end of each
month, make out and file with
the City Clerk "a statement in writ
ing, aud under oath giving the amounts
and gross receipts of all sales made by
him within the city during such month,
to which statement shall be attached the
receipt of the City Treasurer, showing the
sum or sums paid by such person into the
city treasury. In the case of non.resi-
dent persons who may be sojourning tenn
porarily IN the city, selling goods at auc-
tion, the statement required in this sec
ton shall he made daily, as soon as may
be after the close of each days sales.
| SEC. T. Selling without license and
ether violations Penalties. Whoever
shall sell or attempt to sell, at public auc-
tion within the city of jamestown any
goods, chattels or personal property,
without first having obtained a license
and executed bond IS above required,
or whoever shall violate any other pro-
.yis,on of this chapter, or shall IN any par
ticular wilfully fail or refuse to comply
with any of ITS terms, conditions or re-
qulrements, shall be fined not less than
ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars.
SEC. g.. Substitution of artlcles-Pen-
alties. Whoever shall exhibit and offer
tor sale at auction any article and induce
its purchase by any bidder, and shall
afterwards secretly substitute any other
article for the one 50 exhibited, with in
tent to deceive and defraud such bidder;
or whoever shall while engaged in or
about the making of any auction sale, be
guilty of any device, trick, or fraudulent
detraud any bidder shall be fined fifty
dollars, and the license of such person
shall be deemed to be forfeited.
TITLE IL.
SryonrrNc HATIrPTEc
SECTION l. Shooting galleries licensed.
" 2. Rate Of license.
8. Construction of license.
SEC l. Shooting galleries licensed.
No person shall own, keep or run any
shooting gallery or place for target shout
ing, without first obtaining license
therefor, undes a penalty of twenty-five
dollars for each otfense.
SEC. 2. Rate of license. The rate of
license for shooting galleries and places
for target shooting. shall be, for one year,
ten dollars; and tor any shorter period,
the sum of fifty cents per day for the
number of days covered by the license.
Sec. 3. Construction of license. No
license shall authorize the firing of any
gun or firearm within the city, IN contra
vention of any ordinance of the city, nor
shall it authorize. the establishment or
keeping of any shooting gallery or place
for target practice in any alley OF the
city, or IN, or upon, any uninclosed place,
nor shall any such gallery or place for
target practice be kept IN any alley or un
inclosed place within the city, under
penalty Of twenty-five dollars.
TITLE Ill.
SHOWS AND EyuIRITIONs
SECTION l. Shows and exhibitions to be
llcensed-oenalty.
SECTION g Rate of license.
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