The Winslow mail., 1923-08-10

VENDORS, CLAIRVOYANTS, SPI-
RITUALISTS, SPIRIT MEDIUM
ASTROLOGERS, SOOTHSAYERS,
PALMISTS, AND FORTUNE TEL
| LERS.
Be it Ordained by the Common
Council of the Town of WinSlOW, as
Follows, TO-Wit:
Section 1. 1t shall be and is un-
! lawful for any person or persons,
| firms, or corporations to carry on,
operate or conduct any trade, call
ing, profession, business, or anything
! of that nature, in this Ordinance
specified, without first obtaining a
license from the Town Of Winslow
for same, and each and every day or
fractional part of any day that any
day that any trade, calling, profess
sion, business, or occupation in this
Ordinance specified is conducted or
carried on or operated without such
license shall be and is a misdemean-
or and each offense is punishable by
| a fine of not more than $4,000, or
by imprisonment for a term not eX-
ceeding ninety days, or by both such
fine and imprisonment; and the
amount of license fee of such trade,
calling, profession, business, or oc-
cupation, in which any person or
persons or firms or corporations
shall or may be carrying on or oper-
ating, or conducting, shall be and is
a debt due and payable to the Town
of Winslow in any Court Of compe-
tent jurisdition, and said amount
may be obtained by suit, together
with all costs of said suit.
Section H. The language used ]
this ordinance shall be defined as
follow, towit:
(a) A Transient Merchant" with
in the meaning of this Ordinance
shall and does include every person
who solicits orders from house to
house for future delivery of goods,
or who shall and does deliver goods
previously solicited by a solicitor,
at retail, on an order or orders for
future delivery; provided that such
soliciting is not done for or through
a fixed business within the Town
Of Winslow.
(b) AS used in this Ordinance,
the term Street Vendors" includes
I and means all persons or firms or
corporations engaged in selling in or
upon the streets, alleys, or vacant
grounds within the Town of Win
slow, any goods wares, merchandise
or articles of any kind, and also in
cludes and means all persons, firms,
or corporations, operating, conduct
ing, and carrying on, or engaging in
any ring or knife or similar game or
any "faked" business, game, or de-
vice, in or upon the streets, alleys,
or vacant grounds within the Town
oe Winslow.
(c) AS used in this Ordinance,
the term "Peddlers" shall and does
I include solicitors and vendors of all
. kinds who do not have permanent
place OF business in the Town OF
Winslow.
Section III. Applications for Ii
cense herein or hereafter required
shall be made in writing to the Town
Clerk, which applications shall be
in the form herein required or in
form that may hereafter be required.
Section w. All licenses issued
under the provisions of this Ordin-
; ance shall state the person or per
sons or firm or corporation to whom
issued, the trade, calling, profession,
BUSINESS,
Il ed, carried, on operated or conduct
i ed, and the place or places at which
4 the same is to be operated, carried
on, engaged in, or conducted, and
| the amount of the license fee or tax
for same; and said licenses shall be
| signed by the Town Clerk, who shall
make delivery thereof upon receipt
| by him of the amount therein shown,
| In1 hn I'd nf
each original license issued, which
shall be signed by each applicant,
which duplicate shall be kept intact
by book form by the Town Clerk; !;
/ and, by and with the consent of the
Town Mayor, license may be as
signed or transferred but any
assignment or transfer without such
consent in writing shall be, and is
null and void and such license
sought to be assigned and transfer
red improperly shall be forfeited, to-
gether with the license fee or tax
paid for same.
Section V. 1t shall be the duty of
all town police officers to ascertain
and report all trades, callings, pro-
fessions, occupations, and businesses
that are required to pay license here
under, and which are, or may be,
operating without such license, and
to take necessary action to collect
license fee or tax before any trade,
calling, profession, business, or oc-
cupation within the meaning of this
| Ordinance is permitted to be operat-
ed by any person or persons or firm,
| or corporation.
Section VI. Each person, nrm, or
corporation distributing, handling,
hawking, or peddling any fruits or
vegetables, except at the place, of,
or IN lie course of, or in conrecti' n
with some other fixed business, or
place of business, shall and will pay
| the sum of $500 per quarter annum;
provided that the Town Mayor shall
have the power to grant temporary
permission for such peddling upon
the streets of the Town of Winslow,
which said permission, when grant
ed, shall be revocable at the will and