Douglas Island news., 1915-10-13
Ordinance No. 48

An Ordinance regulating the business or
 itiuerant merchants. hawkers and ped-
 ders; the granting of license to itnerahU
 merchants, hnwlyers and peddlers; fixing
 the amount thereof, aud providing penal-
 ties for the violation thereof.
 The town of Douglas does ordain as follows;
 SECTION l. No person or persons shall sell any goods, articles, chattels, or personal property, except farm and garden products and products of the forests, offered Tor Sdle by the producer thereof, or his agent, by peddling, hawking, or public Outcry or m any temporary stand or place of business m the town of Douglas, Alaska nor shall any itinerant merchant be allowed to sell his wares and merchandise in the town of Doug las Alaska, without having first obtained a city license therefor. in addition to the Fed eral and Territorial license imposed on itin- erant merchants: provided, however, that no vendor of fish or bi-yalves shall be rec quired to procure such licenses
 SECTION 2. Every person canyassing. or taking orders for books. pictures, publlca- tiOus or other articles of merchandise, or selling real estate located outside the Terri tory of Alaska, shall be required to take out a eddler's license as m this ordinance pro- yided; but no license shall be required for the delivery of any article when the order therefor was taken under @ licenSe but it no license has been obtained such article or articles shall not be delivered without first taking out peddlers license as provided in this Ordinance; provided that commercial travellers employed by wholesale houses and selling staple articles of merchandise to the merchants of said town of Douglas, shall not be required to take out the license required by this Ordinance.
 SECTION 8. Any person desiring to take out a peddler's license under this Ordinance shall make application therefor Go the Town Clerk of the town Of Douglas and such ap' plicatiOu shall be in writing, and shall spec ify the character of business, the kind of ar- ticles to be sold. the manner of selling the same, and the place where the same are to be sold, provided that said goods are to be sold from an established place of business and if they are not SO be sold from an estab- lished place of business, the application shall SO state. The application shall be signed and sworn to by the applicant and the applicant at the time of making and filing such appli- cation, shall deposit with the Clerk of the town a sum not less than twenty-five dollars (S250O lawful money of the United States, as a license fee for doing business under this Ordinance. Upon making proper application and depOsiting the moneys as aforesaid, the town clerk shall give said applicant receipt in writing for the amount paid, and said re- ceipt shall recite therein that the applicant tnaming him) is entitled to carry on the bus mess Specifying it) under this Ordinance, giving the number thereof, and stating the place where the business is to be carried on and shall also recite the manner in which said business is to be conducted, and the time during which the applicant and licenSee thereuuder is entitled GO carry on said busi- ness, which shall be one week or fraction  paid hereunder,
 SECTION 4. Any person or persons who shall violate any Of the provisions of this Orr dinance shall he guilty of a miSdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be pun- ished by fine of not less than twenty-five dollars (S25.OO) nor more than one hundred dollars (S0O.0O), or by Imprisonment in the city jail for a period not to exceed sixty days or both such fine and imprisonment, and the costs of prosecution.
 SECTION 8. All llordinances and parts of or- dinances in conflict herewith are hereby rec pealed.
 SECTION 6. This Ordinance shall be pub- lished in the Douglas Island News, a news paper publisl ed at Douglas, Alaska, oh the 9th and 18th days of October, 1915, and shall be in force from and after the date of its pas- sage and approval.
 Passed by the common council of the town of Douglas, this 4th day of October 19lj
 PETER JOHNSON,
 President of Common Council and Ex-Ohicio
 Mayor.
 ATTEST: R. R. HUBBARD, City Clerk.