The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-02-23
Ordinance No. 20.

Providing for the Licensing of Hawkers, Ped
dlers or Transient Merchants; fixing the per
diem Fees to be paid for such License and
providing for the Prosecution OF ViOlatOrs of
this Ordinance
The Mayor and Common Council Of the City of
EdgertOn do Ordain:
SECTION /: Every person, firm or corpora
ton proposing to engage in the business OF
haWker, pedde' or transient merchant, within
the purview of Chapter 400 of the Laws of Wis
cOnsin for 1905, within the limits of the City of
EdgertOn, shall before making or Offering to
make any sale, exhibit to the city clerk the
transient merchant state license provided for
in said Chapter 400, and shall pay to the said
city clerk per diem fee of twenty-five (25)
dollars i'll advance tor each and every day he
or they propose to conduct such transient mer-
chant business, or business of hawking or ped
ding within the limits of said City of EdgertOn.
Upon presentation Of said state license to said
city clerk and upon the payment of said per
diem license fee, the city clerk shall record
such state license in book provided and kept
for that purpose; indorse upon said state
license the words Local license paid" affiX
his official signature with the date of such in
dOrSement, and issue to the holder Of such
state license license authorizing him to make
sales within the limits of the said City Of Ed
gertOn for as many days as the per diem Ii
cense fee shall have been paid. Said number
of days shall be specifically stated in the local
license issued, and said license shall be valid
only for the days therein specified.
SEC Every person, firm or corporation
Which shall not have become q permanent mer-
chant or dealer in the City Of EdgertOn, within
the purview of Chapter 400 Laws of Wisconsin
for 1905, and which person, firm or corporation
sells or exposes for sale any goods, wares or
merchandise and which person, firm or cOrpOr-
alton shall advertise, represent and hold forth
that the sale thereof is an insurance, bankrupt,
1nSOlVent. trustee, estate. administrator, eX
ecutOr, receiver. job lot or closing out sale, or
sale of goods, wares and merchandise dam
aged by smoke, fire, water or otherwise, or
that by reason of financial difficulty or other
peculiar circumstances such goods, wares and
merchandise will be disposed of for less than
their real value. shall, before commencing or
advertising a sale thereof, present to the city
clerk his state transient merchant license and
obtain from said city clerk a local transient
merchant license in the manner provided in
Section one o. of this. ordinance, provided
that nothing i'll this section shall apply to any
sale made by virtue Of any Judgment, order or
process of any court, or pursuant to any law
of this state or of the United States or in the
enforcement of any contract right or lien
SEC 3. 1t complaint shall be made to the
mayor that any person, firm or corporation.
doing business within the limits of the City of
EdgertOn, is transient merchant, within the
purview of said Chapter 400, Laws of Wiscon-
sin for 1905, and such person, firm Or corpora
ton shall claim to be a permanent merchant
he Oh they shall be required, as a condition of
transact1ng business in said city, without the
payment of the license fee to said city, to give
a bond to said city to secure the payment of
the state and local license fees in the event he
fails to become permanent merchant, under
the provisions of said Chapter 400, in penal
sum of Five hundred $500 dollars, with sure
which bond shall be enforced, in case of breach
thereof, by the mayor of said city; and upon
its collection, the amount of the state license
shall be paid to the state treasurer and the re-
mainder shall be paid into the treasury of said
City of Edgerton and shall become part of
the license fund.
SEC. f. Every person, firm or corporation
making sales or offering to do SO without first
obtaining the local license, as provided in Sec
ton one>O and in Section two (2) of this ordi
nance, or who shall neglect, fail or refuse to
comply with the requirements of Section three
90 OF this ordinance, shall be subject to the
same penalty as he would be liable to if no
state license had been issued; and it shall be
the duty OF the mayor to cause action to be
brought to recover the per diem fee in this or
d1nance provided for anu to cause viOlators of
this ordinance to be prosecuted under the pro
visions of Section Nineteen 40, Section Tween
ty (2G) and Section Twenty one (2D of said
chapter $50 Of the Laws of Wisconsin for 1909
SEC D. All ordinances or parts Of ordinances
conflicting with the provisions of this ordi
nance are hereby repealed.
SEC. &. This ordinance shall take effect and
be IN force from and after it's passage and pub
licatiOn
Passed by the Common Council of the City of
EdgertOn this goth day of February, A. D. 1906.
Approved February Goth, 1905.
e. M. LADD, Mayor
Attest: HENRY JOHNSON, City Clerk