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An Act to amend an act entitled an act to change the mode of collecting the revenue of Hawkers and Pedlars. 1850 64 (1850.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0246 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI. CHAPTER 5. AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to change the mode of collecting revenue of Hawkers and Pedlars, approved February 28, 1846. - SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That the second section of the above recited act be, and the same is hereby Yepealed, Rate of and that hereafter the following rates shall be paid license. for license to hawk and peddle in any county in this State, to-wit: For license to carry merchandise on foot, one hundred dollars; for license to carry mer- chandise on horse, or other beast of burthen, one hundred and fifty dollars; and for license to carry merchandise in a vehicle, or in any other manner than as before mentioned, two hundred dollars. SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That if any person Finerfor shall hawk and peddle in any county in this State, without li. without first having obtained a license therefore, ac- cense. cording to the provisions of this act, and the act hereby amended, he or they so offending, shall forfeit and pay to the county treasury the sum of five hun- dred dollars for each violation, which shall and may be recovered in the name of the State of Mississippi, and sued for in any court of this State, having juris- diction thereof, one-fourth to be paid to the prosecu- tor, or person sueing, and the balance into the county treasury of the county where such offence may have been committed, for common school purposes. SEc. 3. Be it further enacted, That all hawkers To exhibit and pedlars shall be bound to exhibit their license license. (when thereto requested) to any freeholder of the county in which lie may be hawking and pedling, and any hawker or pedlar who shall refuse so to do, shall on due proof theriof, made to any justice of the peace of such county, be subject to a fine of not less than twenty, nor more than fifty dollars, one-half to be paid to the informer, and the other half into the county treasury for common school purposes, and each and every justice of the peace of any county in this State, is hereby required, upon oath being made before him, by any citizen of any such county, that such hawker or pedlar has refused to exhibit his license as above required, to forthwith issue his war- rant for the arrest of any such hawker or pedlar, and cause him to be brought before him forthwith, or some other justice of the peace of said county, and 64

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