The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-30
Ordinance No. II.

An ordinance relating 10 hawl<erS, peddlerS,
transient merchants and other occupations
The Mayor and Common Council of the City OF
EdgertOn, do Ordain as follows:
Section /. No person shall engage in or fol-
low the business or occupation OF a hawker,
peddler or transient merchant within the
meaning OF Chapter 400 of the laws of Wiscon-
sin for the year 1908, within the limits of the
city of EdgertOn, without first having obtain
ed license therefor according to the prOviS-
ions of this ordinance.
Section 2. No person, firm or corporation,
which shall not have become a permanent
merchant or dealer in the city of EdgertOn
shall advertise, represent or hold forth that
the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise
which any such person, firm or corporation
sells or exposes for sale in said city, is an in
Surance, bankrupt insOlvent assignee, trustee,
estate, executor, administrator, receiver job
lot or closing out sale, or sale of goods,
wares or merchandise damaged by fire, smoke,
water or otherwise, or that by reason of tinan
c1al difficulty or other special or peculiar cir
cumstances such goods, wares or merchandise
will be disposed OF for less than their real val
lie. without having first obtained license
therefore according to the provisions of this
ordinance providing that nothing in this sec
ton 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 enforcement of any con-
tract right or lien.
Section 8. Upon complaint being made to
the mayor that any person doing business in
the city of EdgertOn is a transient merchant
and such person shall claim to be q permanent
merchant the mayor may make an order re-
curing such person as condition OF trans
acting business in said city, without the pay
ment of license fee, to give bond to the city
of EdgertOn to secure the payment of the
state and city license, in the event that he fails
to become a permanent merchant, in the penal
sum of five hundred dollars, with sureties to
be approved by the city clerk, as provided for
in section Of said Chapter 400 of the laws of
1906
Section A. The sums to be paid for all Ii
censes required by this ordinance shall be as
follows:
/. For hawking Or peddling with a wagon or
other vehicle. drawn by two or more horses or
automobile, six dollars per day.
2 For hawking or peddllng with wagon or
other vehicle. drawn by one horse, five dollars
per day.
3. For hawking or peddling with push
cart, hand cart or other vehicle not drawn by
horses, three dollars per day.
4. For hawking or peddling on foot by
means of pack, basket or other means for car
rying merchandise on foot, two dollars per
day.
5. For a transient merchant license, ten
dollars per day.
sales as are specified in section two of this or
dinance twenty dollars per day, which shall
exempt the licensee from the payment of the
license fee required for transient merchant
Section s. Any person may obtain license
under the provisions of this ordinance, upon
making application in writing to the city clerk
on blanks TO be furnished by him, which appli-
cations shall specify the kind of license ap
piled for, the name and residence of the appli-
can't, the nature of the goods, wares or mer
chandise he intends to sell or dispose Of and
the number of days he will be engaged in SELL
ing or dlSpOSlng Of the same The application
for a license to advertise and make such sales
as are specified in section tWOOf this ordinance
shall in addition thereto, state the details con-
corning such sale, including all the facts re-
lating to the insurance, bankruptcy, insOlven-
cy or other reason for making the same, with
sufficient fullneSS as to the time place and
persons to permit the verificatiOn thereof.
Upon the filing of such application with the
city clerk and the presentation to him OF a re-
ceipt signed by the city treasurer showing the
payment of the license fee required by the or
dinance, the city clerk shall issue TO such ap-
plicant license for the number of days for
which he shall have made payment as afOre-
said.
Section 6. But one person shall be author
lied to carry on business as a hawker, peddler
or transient merchant, under the terms of any
license issued therefore, and no person shall
conduct business under the same license as
CO. partners, agents or otherwise.
No license to advertise and make such sales
as are specified in section two of this ordi-
nance shall authorize more than one person,
firm or corporation to sell or advertise goods,
wares or merchandise in the manner specified
therein, either by agent or clerk or in any 9TH
er way than in the proper person in the Ii
cense, except that when the license is firm or
corporation the sale may be conducted by the
members of the partnership or the officers of
the corporation, and any licenSee may have the
assistance of one or more persons, who shall
not, however. have authority to act for him in
his absence. Any agent or employee VINO con-
ducts or advertises sale for his principal shall
be liable to the penalty hereinafter prescribed
if such principal has failed to comply with any
OF the provisions OF this ordinance NO license
issued under this ordinance shall be transfer
able without the consent of the common coun-
Gil.
Section All ordinances or parts of ordi-
nanceS conflicting with or cOntravening any of
the provisions of this ordinance are hereby re-
pealed.
Section s. Any person violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance or who makes any
false statement in said application for a Ii
one hundred dollars nor less than ten dollars
for each violation, and like penalty for each
and every day such violation shall continue.
Section 9. This ordinance shall take effect
and be force from and after it's passage and
publication.
Passed by the Common Council of the city
of Edgerton, Wis, this Goth day of March, 1906
Approved March 2lst, 1906
Attest: E. M. LADD, 81
HENRY JOHNSON Mayor.
CitV Clerk