Bisbee daily review., 1904-08-10
Mexican Laws
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THE NEW LAW RECENTLY PUT INTO EFFECT IN
 SONORA.
AT Travelling Statesmen Doing Busi- ness in Sonora Must Pay T License Tax Whether Carrying Samples or Not to the State.

Francisco Munoz, Constitutional Vice Governor of the Free and Sovereign State of Sonora, in Exercise of the Executive Power, ii its Inhabitants Makes Known:
 That, in accordance with Fraction 5 of the Income Law. in force, hereby issue the following
 Ordinance for the Collection of the License which Travelling Salesmen Shall Pay:
 Article I. Travelling Salesmen com ing into the State, with or without samples of merchandise of any kind, will pay in any locality where they verify (ales, Ia monthly license of from s50O0 to s150.00. to be affixed by the Tax Collector of each locality.
 Article II. On the arrival in eacn town of the State. the Travellhs Statesmen will make a manifest to the Tax Collector of the transactions they propose to make, kind of mer- chandise they sell, and name of the firm they represent. in order that the officer may duly qualify same for the payment of the license.
 Article III. No Travelling Statesmen can make any sales without having previously paid the license to which Article refers, nor can any persons, whatever. make any commercial trans actions with said salesman without the later first exhibiting the license above specified.
 Article ". The proprietors. or ho- tel keepers. restaurants and boarding houses, are obliged to give notice to hn of hA nf ha Travelling Salemen that lodge in the respective establishments.
 Article " The Municipal Treasurer of Police Commissary, who collect from the Travelling Salesman any tax which their respective establishments may establish. and that do not have the power invested in them as per Fraction of Article VI, shall give due notice to the Tax Collector of ;le locality when said Salesmen appe2; before them to make the payment. in order that they may also exact from them this license, if not previously paid.
 Article VI. The officers in charge of the collection of this tax are:
 1. Tn the Capital 'f tha State, the State Treasurer.
 2. In the County Cnistritns, Seats. the County TraasI.. 3.
 3. In the uu'l,:p ,lities that a:e not County Seats, ,he Municipal Treasurers. who. for q is purpose. will act as Collectors of the State Tax. Tax. f5 I In the Comisarias. the Police Com misaries.
 Article VII. In those places where there should be Fixed Agents, these of hcers will collect the present tax.
 Article VIII. The Salesmen who. without having previously made the manifest and payments to which Ar. ucle II refers, make any transactions and the persons or corporations that buy from them without previously in. quiring if they have paid the respect i've license, will pay a fine equal to the double of the amount which the Tax Collector may impose on them T urers. or Police Commissaries. tiat to not Five the Tax Collector the notice accordance with Article I.
 Article TX. The Municipal Treas cited in Article V will suffer fine of s10.C0.
 Article x. In all cases. where fna has been imposed and the colIec.ion IS not forthcoming, the corTespnrd;r.g arrest shall be made as pr rJyile6 for in the Penal Code
 Given in Hermosillo. this S0rh day of June, 1904.
 FRANCISCO MUNOZ.
 Brijido Caro. 2nd Asst.
 This is true copy taken out Of the original, to which "c certify
 ALBERTO CUBH1LAS. D. s.
 ALBERTO G. NORIEGA, D. s