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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0547 and id is 1 raw text is: Taxes,
aforesaid articles, twenty-five dollars; on every license to a hawker ri pedtls.
or pedlar dealing in tin and pewter only, in each county or corpora.
tion where he or she shall trade, ten dollars; on every license to a Clock pedlam.
hawker or pedlar dealing either wholly or partly in clocks, in every
county or corporation where he or she shall trade, one hundred dol-
lars; on every license to an exhibitor of a public show, thirty dollars Exhibitors of
in each county or corporation where the same shall be exhibited. shw
4. And be it further enacted, That all clocks *which shall be of- Where clocks to
fered for sale by a hawker or pedlar shall be deemed to have been ufecered.o b
manufactured without the limits of this commonwealth, and be lia-
ble to taxation, unless the commissioner of the revenue or other re-
venue officer within whose district such clocks shall be so offered ror
sale shall be fully satisfied that the same were bona fide of the
manufacture of this state.
5. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof. Commencement.
CnAP. 2.-An ACT amending and reducing into one act the several acts and
parts of acts concerning the taxes on licenses to keepers of ordinaries and
houses of private entertainment; to merchants; to vendue masters; to bro-
kers; to venders of lottery tickets; to hawkers and pedlars; to exhibitors
,uf public shows; on law process; on notarial seals, and certain other sub-
jects.
(Passed larch 3,1840.)
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall not be Alerchants to ob-
lawful for any person to sell goods, wares, merchandize or other ar- t, licoes.
r-sections from I to
ticles of foreign or domestic growth, production or manufacture, or QL inclusive taken
' ft.. acts 183-4,
both or either, by wholesale or retail, on land, or on board of any p. 7 to 14.
vessel within -this commonwealth, unless he or she shall have paid
the tax required by law, and obtained a license according to the
provisions of this act; and any person failing or offending herein, Penalty iar fai.
for every such offence, shall forfeit and pay a sum equal to double lure-
the amount of the tax, for the time being, imposed by law, to be uIo, recoverable.
recovered in any court having jurisdiction, by information or indict.
ment, or in any court of record of the county or corporation, after
ten days previous notice, by motion of the commissioner of the re-
venue of the district, or of the county or corporation, if there be no
districts, for the commonwealth, to the use of the literary fund; or
by motion of any person who will proceed therein, one half thereof
to the informer, and the other half to the commonwealth, for the
use of the literary fund.
2. Provided, That nothing herein contained shull be so construed Manufacturers
as to prevent any person from disposing of any goods, wares, mer-th'I of
chandize, or other articles of his or her own manufacture, within
this commonwealth; nor to prevent any persbn from repairing
watches or other things, and thereby vending such materials as are
used by him or her in the operation ; nor to prevent any person Provisions and ag-
from selling any kind c f provisions or agricultural commodities, the rIculturl comno-
I diales except,]
growth or production of this state, or any of the United States; nor Farmers may sell
with~out license
to prevent any planter or farmer from selling selt, iron, steel, tea, attilee purehased
sugar, coffee, molasses, spices or gypsum, to his or her neighbours, as return loads.
when such articles are purchased as a return load for his or her
produce, or other property taken to market; nor to prevent the offi- Text books may
he sold by trustes
cers or trutees of any seminary of learning from selling such text or.stinries.
books as they may have purchased or imported, to the students of
such seminary; nor shall it be necessary in any such cases to pay a
tax or obtain a license.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsva0547&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)