Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-04-06
Ordinance No 275.
Abigail jenkins,
p m at fulton Co ills

An Ordinance to license tax, and regulate auc,,
tioneers, hawkers, peddlers, brokers and
pawn brokers'
The Cityof Olympia does orddin as fol- O,rs:
SEcTIoN,. No person shall engage in the
business of public auctioneer for hire in the
City of Olympia, without license therefor
from said City.
SEC Q The City Clerk is hereby authorized
to issue licenses under this Ordinance, but no
license shall issue until the applicant shall file
with the Clerk receipt for twenty dollars
from the City Treasurer, which sum Is hereby
established as license tax upon auctioneers.
Said license shall authorize the holder thereof
to conduct the business of an auctioneer for the
term of one year from date thereof. Prorided,
said license shall not authorize the holder
thereof to sell at auction any bankrupt stock OF
merchandise, or any stock of jcwelry, or to con
duct any sale, when prizes are offered, or that
are conducted upon any rule of chance. A Ii
cense for any of said purposes, shall be granted
by the Clerk, for any length of time desired,
upon filing with the Clerk, the Treasurer's re
ceipt for twenty dollars for each and every day
for which such license may be desired.
SEC. No. s. No person shall engage IN the
business of a hawker or peddlcr in the City of
Olympia, without license therefor from the
City. ,,,.
SEE Any persons, except persons peddling
newspapers, books or religious tracts, and
farmers, gardeners. and mechanics, peddling
the produce of their own farms, work shops,
and gardens: and fishermen, who sell fish, etc,
of their own catching who offer to sell at retail
goods wares, merchandise or other commod-
ities, by travelling from place to place in the
City of Olympia, shall be regarded as peddlers
SEC. g. The City Clerk is hereby authorized
to issue licenses under Section OF this
Ordinance. but no licence shall issue until the
applicant shall file with the Clerk Il receipt
from the City Treasurer for the license tax. as
herein specified, to-wit: If license to peddlc
jewelry or spectacles, the sum OF ten dollars per
day: II to peddle medicines, five dollars per
day; il to peddle any other article, the sum oi
five dollars per day.
SEC G. Any person, other than a duly au-
thOrized auctioneer, who offers goods goods for
sale by out-cry on the street, or who shall con
duct business from stand or wagon, or ON a
street or other place within the corporate lim-
its of the City of Olympia, shall be deemed a
hawker, under the provisions of this Ordinance.
SEC. 7. license tax is hereby prescribed
for hawkers rs follows: For lottery tickets or
any other articles, where the sale is conducted
upon rules OF chance, or where prize packages
or similar devices are used, twenty dollars pes
day: medicines or iewelry, twenty dollars per
day; other articles, ten dollars per day
SEC s. Licenses to hawkers shall be Issued
by tire City Clerk, upon presentation and filing
OF the Treasurers receipt for the amount re-
quired by Section ofthis Ordinance.
visions of this ordinance shall bear the date OF
It's ISSUE shall b. signed by the City Clerk, and
attested under the official seal OF the City, ana
shall set forth for what and to whom 1t is
issued.
SEC TO- 1t is hereby made the duty of the
CITY Clerk to keep in his Office a well-bound
book, to be called the Register OF lhccHscs, anu
all licenses hereafter issued, shall be recorded
in such register. The City Clerk shall charge
and receive from the person to whom the Ii
cense is issued, fee Of one dollar, for issuing
nd recording each license, and shall furnish
to any person who shall desire it, Il certified
copy OF such license, aud charge therefor n
like fee of one dollar. :,
SEC. il. Licenses granted under this Ordi-
nance may be transferred at at any time, with
the consent of the City Council. Prorided, that
no such transfer shall take effect until the City
Clerk shall have made Il record thereof across
the face of such license, and likewise upon the
record of such license. The City Clerk shall
charge fee of one dollar for making such rec
ord and indorsement.
SEC L. Certified copies of the record ofrny Ii
cense shall have the same force and erect In
evidence against the city as in the original IL
cense.
SEC Is. Persons having license under the
provisions of Section . of this Ordinance, shall
post the same in some conspicuous place IN
their place of business.
SEC IA. ANY person violating any OF the pro
visions of this Ordinance, SHALL upon convlc,
ton thereof, be fined in any sum, not TO exceed
one hundred dollars.
Approved March 29th 1sss.
A. CHAMBERS, Mayor.
Attest: RoBT. MARR,
City Clerk.