fruit in large or small quantities, for one year from the date of such license: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be so construed as to include licensed grocers and merchants who sell smoked, cured meats, fresh and salt fish and smoked sausage. [G. O. No. 441, Sec. 61.

SEC. 2. Cleanliness- requirements. Every person who is duly licensed as herein required, shall keep his meat shop or stand properly cleaned and free from all foul smells and nuisances of every description, and on failure thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. [G. 0. No. 441, Sec. 62.

SEC. 3. Board of health, control of.-All meat shops shall be under the control of the board of health, which shall have power, by a majority of the board, to declare any one of the same a nuisance, for good and sufficient cause, which finding, when recorded in their proceedings and a copy thereof served upon the party licensed, shall operate as a canceling of his license and a prohibition of all sales thereunder. [G. O. No. 441, Sec. 63.

SEC. 4. License shall designate location, etc.— Every license shall contain the name of the person in whose name it is issued, and shall designate the location of the meat shop or stand, and shall be and remain during its continuance posted in same conspicuous place in the meat shop or stand. [G. O. No. 441, Sec. 64.

SEC. 5. Penalty.-Any person who shall keep in this city any meat shop or stand without having obtained a license therefor, or who shall violate any of the provisions in relation thereto herein contained, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. [G. O. No. 441, Sec. 65.

SEC. 6. Wholesaler, license.-No person shall engage in the business of selling or offering for sale any fresh

meats at wholesale in the city of St. Joseph, either from a house, store, shed, car, wagon or other place, without first having a license from said city as a wholesale meat dealer, and the charge for such license shall be one hundred dollars per ● year. [G. O. No. 441, Sec. 66.

[For penalty for violating Sec. 6 see Sec. 20, Chap. entitled Licenses."]

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SECTION 1.

Merchant defined.-Every person, co

partnership or corporation, who shall engage in the selling of any goods, wares or merchandise, at any store, stand or place occupied for that purpose, within the limits of the city of St. Joseph, is hereby declared a merchant. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 44, Sec. 1.

SEC. 2. Penalty for selling merchandise without license.-No person, copartnership or corporation shall sell or offer for sale any goods, wares or merchandise within said city, without first having obtained a merchant's license, in compliance with the provisions of the general law governing cities of the second class, and the ordinances of said city; every merchant violating this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each day he or they do business without such license. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 44, Sec. 2.

SEC. 3. Annual license to be taken out when.— Merchants shall take out their annual licenses between the first day of January and the fifteenth day of February in each year. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 44, Sec. 3.

SEC 4. Must file statement of cash value of goods, etc.-Before any merchant shall be entitled to receive a merchant's license under the provisions of this ordinance, such merchant shall file with the city assessor a sworn statement showing the actual cash value of the highest amount of goods, wares and merchandise owned by him for sale, at any time within three months before the first day of January of such year for which license is required. Such statement shall include all goods, wares and merchandise, which he may have in his possession or under his control, owned by him, and shall be signed and verified by the affidavit of such merchant or some creditable person authorized to sign and verify such statement. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 44, Sec. 4.

SEC. 5. Duty of assessor receiving statement.The city assessor shall, upon such statement being filed in his office, properly signed and verified, make out and deliver to the city auditor a certificate stating that such person, naming him, has filed the statement required by the ordinances of the city, also, giving the cash value of his goods, wares and merchandise returned, and the location of his store, stand or place of business. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 44, Sec. 5.

SEC. 6. Proceedings to obtain license-form of bond. The city auditor shall, upon the receipt of such certificate from the assessor, issue a license to the person named in such certificate, which license shall be countersigned by the city comptroller: Provided, that such person named in the certificate of the assessor executes a bond to the city of St. Joseph, with at least two resident householders, of such city, as securities, to be approved by the city auditor, who shall endorse his approval thereon; the applicant for license must deliver his bond to the city auditor before the license is issued

Said

and delivered to him. The city auditor shall return said bond to the comptroller, who shall file the same in his office. bond shall be in the following form:

Know all men by these presents, that we,.. principal, and..

.as

as securities, are held and firmly bound unto the city of St. Joseph in the penal sum of.. ..dollars, for the payment of which we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dated this. The condition of the foregoing obligation ha....this day received a

day of........

A. D. 18....... is such that whereas. license to do business in said city as merchant....for the year ending Decem

ber 31st, 18; now if the said.. shall, on or before the 1st day of September, 18. pay to the collector of said city all taxes which may be due upon such license for the year ending on the last above mentioned date, then this bond to be void; otherwise to remain in full force.

The penalty of which said bond shall be, when the valuation as shown by the statement required in this ordinance does not exceed twenty-five hundred dollars, the sum of one hundred dollars; and when the valuation exceeds twenty-five hundred dollars, an additional sum of one hundred dollars for each twenty-five hundred dollars or fractional part thereof. Upon such bond being approved by the auditor, he shall grant a merchants' license to the applicant, in form as hereinafter provided. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 44, Sec. 6.

SEC. 7. Form of license.-All licenses issued under this chapter shall expire on the thirty-first day of December next after the time of such issuing, and shall be in the following form:

day of

The City of St. Joseph to all who may see these presents, greeting: Know ye, that having filed statement, and on the A. D. 18., given bond as required of him, for the payment of all lawful taxes which may be due upon this license, therefore the said...

is hereby authorized to do

In testimony

business as....merchant... at any one place within said city for. months, ending the thirty-first day of December next. whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the city to be affixed, this........day of..

.A. D. 18....

.A. D. 18....

Auditor.

Comptroller.

SEC. 8.

[R. O. 1888, Chap. 44, Sec. 7.

Auditor to make statement. The city auditor shall, at the end of each month, make a statement in detail of all merchants' licenses issued by him during said month, showing the name of the person or persons to whom granted, the place of business and the date thereof; also, the cash value of the highest amount returned to the assessor by each person, which said statement shall be filed in the office of the city comptroller, and by him laid before the common council at its first stated meeting thereafter. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 44, Sec. 8.

SEC. 9. Duty of assessor to make list.-The city assessor shall make a complete list of all merchants who have filed their statements showing the cash value of the highest amount of goods, wares and merchandise owned and kept on hand by them for sale at any time within three months before the first day of January of such year, for which the assessment is made, and deliver the same to the common council at the same time he is required to deliver the assessment books. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 44, Sec. 9.

SEC. 10. Taxes to be extended.-The city auditor shall extend the taxes for general and special purposes in the same manner that he does on other property subject to taxation. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 44, Sec. 10.

SEC. 11. License how obtained after January, etc.-It shall be the duty of every person, copartnership or corporation intending to commence business as merchants in the city of St. Joseph at any time after the first day of January