No. 20.] AN ACT IN RELATION TO [SENATE. HAWKERS AND PEDLERS. [WM. R. SMITH & Co.....Printers to the State.] STATE OF MAINE. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE. AN ACT relating to Hawkers and Pedlers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives in Legislature assembled—as follows: 3 SECTION 1. Every hawker, pedler, or petty chap4 man or other person, going from town to town or 5 from place to place on foot, or with a horse, carriage 6 or otherwise carrying to sell, or exposing to sale, any 7 indigo, tin ware, books, medicine, nostrums, essences 8 or any other goods or merchandize, shall forfeit a 9 sum, not exceeding fifty dollars, nor less than twenty 10 dollars, to be recovered by complaint or indictment, 11 and all the articles and merchandize aforesaid, one 12 half to the use of the town where the offence is com13 mitted, and the other half to the prosecutor. SEC. 2. Any justice of the peace, on complaint 2 made to him, may cause the arrest of the party ac3 cused, and the seizure of such goods, and detain the 4 same until trial; and in case of conviction of the 5 offender, the same shall be decreed forfeited to the 6 use aforesaid. SEC. 3. Nothing in the preceding sections shall 2 prevent any citizen of this State or of the United 3 States from vending any farming utensils, whips, fish, 4 fruits, provisions, garden seeds, wooden wares, or articles made principally of wood, or any articles, 6 the growth or manufacture of this State, tin ware 7 excepted. 5 any SEC. 4. The county commissioners may license 2 any citizen of this State, or of the United States, in 3 their county, to sell or peddle tin ware for one year 4 from the time of application therefor, on payment of 5 the sum of five dollars into the treasury of said 6 county, for the use of the State, and on his produc7 ing a certificate from the selectmen of the town 8 where he resides, that he is of good moral character; 9 and the person so licensed, may personally vend any 10 such tin ware. SEC. 5. Every person, so licensed, shall have his 2 name printed in large letters, at least one inch wide, 3 and also the words, licensed by C. C., and the name 4 of the county, where the license was granted, in some 5 conspicuous place on every carriage, employed by 6 him for conveyance of such wares; and he shall also' 7 exhibit the certificate of his license, when required 8 by any justice of the peace, sheriff or his deputy, se9 lectman or constable, within the limits of their respec10 tive jurisdictions; and if he shall fail in any of the 11 foregoing particulars, he shall forfeit twenty five dol12 lars to any person who shall sue for the same, and |