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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0562 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 9.] AN ACT
To impose a tax upon itinefant book and periodical agents,
and to increase the tax on peddling in the State of Ala.
bama.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened,
That hereafter it shall not be lawful for any agent, partner
or owner of any publishing house, book concern, or news-
paper, or any author or any agent of any author, to sell or
n enee Judge orto obtain any subscription to any book, periodical, map,
probate. engraving, or newspaper, in any county in this State, with.
out first obtaining a license from the Judge of Probate of
the county in whichli he proposes to sell or to obtain such
subscription, and also paying for such license the sum of
one hundred dollars. Provided That no such license shall
be granted unless the applicant produces to the Judge of
Probate the recommendation of six freeholders or house-
holders of said county, stating that they are acquainted
women. with said applicant, that he is possessed of a good moral
character and in all respects a proper person to be licensed,
and in addition thereto the Judge of Probate must be sat-
isfied before he issues said license that the work proposed
to be sold, or to which subscribers are proposed to be
obtained, is not dangerous or insurrectionary in its charac-
ter: Provided further, That this act shall not apply to the
sellers of religious books who are accredited by any eccle-
siastical body or denomination which has a regular organi-
zation in this'State, nor to any author, editor, publisher or
bookscller permanently located in any slave-holding State
of this Union, nor to any agent of such last mentioned
author, editor, publisher, or bookseller: Provided further,
That no auctioneer in this State shall sell any book for any
itinerant or traveling owner of books not residing ii this
State.
SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That hereafter all licenses
to peddle goods, wares or merchandise of any description,
Lnente. . for which a license is now required by law, shall be charged
as follows, viz: To peddle in a wagon, for each wagon in
a county, seven hundred and fifty dollars; on a horse, for
each horse in a county, five hundred dollars; on foot, in
each county, three hundred dollars fir each person; which
license must be obtained from the Judge of Probate of the
county in which such peddling is to take place.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That all Judges, Justices
1850-'60.
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