The Arizona champion., 1883-11-17

ArlZOna, dt us SeSSlOl ldSt WiHtCI' No.77. AN ACT
 To provide for licensing commercial travellers. Be Xsnaetcd 6yMe LegiSlafive ASsSm6ly ef Me
 7tyyito,y ef Ayis0na;
 SECTION I.--Every commercial traveller, agent, drummer, salesman, or other person travelling from place to place selling or offering to sell a y goods, wares, clothes, or merchandise of any kind to be delivered at some future lime, or carrying samples and sel ing or oiIeing to sell any goods, wares, clothes, or merchandise of any kind similar to said samples, to be delivered at some future time. shal! before carrying on such business, pay a license there. for of tavo hundred dollars as a Territorial license.
 SEC. 2.-The Territorial Treasurer is here. by directed to prepare licenses as required by this Act, and transmit the same 70 each County Treasurer m this Territory. He shall number the same conNecuIlvely and sign them; anu the County Treasurer issuing the same shall countersign the licenses before so dOng SEC. S.-Each license so signed and cOun. 'ersigned shall be valid in each and every county of this Territory, anl shall be good for one year from the date of It's issuance Every ounty Treasurer is hereby required and irected at the time of maAing report to ne rerrit rial Treasurer. as required by wv, to make ao additional report showing -umber of licenses issued by him under
 ct, and he is lurIler required and to transmit to the rerrit rial Treas
 moneys received by him therefor
 percen age.
 4.--lhe mo eys so received by the
 rial Treasurer shall be by hlm placed
 credit of the General Fund.
 :. 5.-'Ihe pay, ent me toned in Sec
 of this Act shall be made to the
 nty Treasurer of any county in this ritory, and he shall, on demand, issue ,ch license t, any person who shall de hand the same and who shall tender the money ,herefor and | Incense so issued shall authorize the person named therein 10 carry on the said business of a commercial traveller in this Territory for a period one year from its date; and it is hereb! made the duty of every Justice of the Peace. Constable, Sheriff, City Marshal, and all peace officers, to demand the license of any such commercial traveller, drummer, agent. or ether person who has sold or is offering to sell goods, wares or merchandise in his county; and if such person be found not L have license, as required by thus Act, ol if upon demand made by any such officer h, shall not exhibit the same. or if the person shall exhibit forged license or one issued to some other traveller, drummer, agent or other person, the person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con viction thereof in a urt of competen' jurisdiction shall be fined three hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the County Jail three months.
 SEC 6-No conviction under this Ac shall relieve the person so convicted iron the necessity of taking out license, a provided in Section of thi, Act.
 SEC 7.--The Terri orial Treasurer shal present d certified bill of the cost of pre- pairing the licenses required by this Act the Auditor, who shall draw hls warrant or the General Fund for the amount of tn, bill, and m favor of the party named il the bill without any further appropriation act being required,
 SEC. S,--1his Act shall take effect ant be in force from and after the first day o May. A. D. 1883.
 Approved March 7th, 1883,
 The above act, now on our statut, books, while it was intended to be o service to the Territory, really work an injustice to dealers and consumers In the first place, each representative of finn must take out Saoo license Of course, the wholesale firm sending out the agent has to pay for the Ii cence, and should they desire at an time 10 change their agent, then tn license has to be paid for a second third, and perhaps more times, It right and proper that wholesale house in large cities, doing business in Ari zona, should pay license, but tn firms should be made to take out sue license, and not the individual. It source of profit to Arizona dealer and consumers to receive calls fror representatives of foreign wholesal houses, soliciting orders, as it afford protection from ruinous prices whiC our home wholesale dealers might ir fllct in the absence of competition It was the intention of the act { drive out all competition, more tha to increase the revenue of the coul ties, and in this, we are happy { state, the plan has been frustrated, tc large number of foreign houses ha, complied with the law, and continl to do business within our border All such houses are willing to tai out license in the name of the frn but protest against being called upc two or three times year, or evel time change is made in their repr sentatives, There IS no doubt b. the act has driven salesmen out Arizona, or prevented them from con ing Tn, where, perhaps, the introdu tion of their wares would prove great benefit to the people. The la works a hardship, and should
 somewhat amended. The same Ia was tried in New Mexico, in the i terest of the Santa Fe wholesale me chants, but was cancelled from t statutes of that Territory after ve short life.
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