Ordinance 157

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SEC. 3. -- Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance, shall for each offence be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars.

ORDINANCE NO. 157. AN ORDINANCE TO LICENSE, TAX AND REGULATE AUCTIONEERS, HAWKERS [AND] PEDDLERS. Approved Sept 5, 1878.

The City of Seattle does ordain as follows:

SECTION 1. -- All auctioneers, hawkers, and peddlers, shall be licensed and taxed as follows:

Every auctioneer for each year, at the rate of twenty dollars,

Every hawker or peddler, for each year, at the rate of twenty-five dollars.

SEC. 2 -- Upon payment to the City Treasurer of the amount of such tax, and the production to the City Clerk of a certificate of such payment, said Clerk shall issue to such auctioneer, hawker, [or] peddler, a license authorizing the carrying on of such business for the term of one year, or for a period not less than three months.

SEC. 3. -- Any person or persons violating any of these provisions of this Ordinance, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars.