The Sentinel=record., 1911-07-20
AN ORDINANCE


 who desires to drum or solicit nat ronage for any hotel or boarding house in the City of Hot Springs, teNcept any bona fide owner or prop prietor ol such hotel or boarding house shall be required to obtain a license therefor, and, upon application ana giving bond as herein after provided and by payment to this City of the
 sum of Fifty Dollars in advance, may obtain sueIh license to drum or solicit for such hotel or boarding house, for a period of one year, un- der the conditions and manner set forth in this ordinance.
 Section 2 The application for such license shall be made in writ ing to the Mayor and City Clerk and state the name of the person to be licensed and for what hotel or board. ing house he or she intends to drum or solicit patronage, accompanied by q good and sufficient bond in the sum of five hundred dollars condition ed as hereinafter prescribed, and up- on the Mayor and City Clerk grant, ing said application shall pay to the City Collector the sum of fifty dol- lars per annnm, in advance, said sum Ito be considered a reasonable amount for issuing said license. keeping a re- cord of same, and all police and otn- Ter lawful regulations incident to and
 connected with such business. If the person named in said application is, in the opinion of the Mayor and FCity Clerk. CT good moral character land Is bona fide resident and quail Iified voter of the City of Hot Springs the application shall be granted, oth- Ierwise the same shall be refused.
 Section ,. 1.-The license shall desig- mate the name of the person authoriz- led to drum or solicit and the name of the hotel or boarding house for which he or she is authorized to drum Tor solicit, anu the time of expiration of same
 The bond as herein referred to shan De in the sum Of five hundred dollars land payable to the City of Hot Springs, Ark. and shall be signed by surety to be approved by the may Tor and City Clerk, after the surety or sureties thereon have qualified as required by the laws of the State of Arkansas for sureties on official bonds of State or County officers, and conditioned that such person author- ized under said license to so drum or solicit patronage fes such rotel or boarding house designated in such license, without fraud, concealment, misrepresentation oppression, impo- sition or deceit, and that he or she will not drum, solicit or engage in. @tae business of drumming or soliciting persons or patronage for any hote' Tor boarding house. except the one named in said license, and that he Tor she will not drum or solicit, or by word, act or deed, induce or per suade or attempt to induce or per suade any person to employ or en- gage any physician or surgeon; and that he or she will not aid, abet or assist any inside man or any person whatever in drumming or soliciting any person or inducing or persnading any person to employ or engage any doctor. and in all other respects con- ply with the terms of thIs ordfnancc.
 Section 1.-The words, business 'of drumming or soliciting." as used in this ordinance, shall bc construed to mean any word, deed or act or acts whereby such person shall en- deavor to persuade, induce, Influence tor prevail upon any stranger or per son who does not reside in this City Ito patronize any hotel or boarding house, or any doctor, physician or surgeon in this city, or to visit any  such hotel. boarding house, or phy- sician or surgeon with a view of pas- |ronizing or employing the same.
 Section 5--The license provided for lin this ordinance shall embrace only cue hotel or boarding house and shall not authorize the licensee to drum or solicit for any other hotel or boarding house, except the one named In such license; provided, that upon application hy~the said licensee the name of the hotel or boarding house designated in said license may be changed to that of some other hotel or boarding house to be en- dorsed upon tho license, as well as noted upon the stub Of the record in the Clerks Clerks $ office by the said Clerk upon payment to the said Clerk of q fee of Two Dollars and Fifty Gents for each new transfer and in which case no new license shall he requir- ed and the licensee may engage in and continue the business for the substituted hotel or boarding house provided. further however, the mum ...o~<.5