158 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. DoC. 



2. Mercantile appraisers to assess brokeiB, *c«oidiug lu the 

 aiiiyuut of business done, iu the same manner as i«quired in case 



•f vendors of mercliaudise, subject to right of appeal. 



Act May 15, 1S50, section 8, (P. L., page 773). 



AUCTIONEERS' LICENSES. 



1. Auctioneers to be rated with merchandise brokers, and to pay 

 in the same manner as brokers, three per cent, upon their annual 

 receipts from commissions, abatements, discounts, allowances or 

 other means used in the transaction of their business. In Phila- 

 delphia the license not to be less than $500. 

 Act June 26, 1873, (P. L., 1874, page 332). 



PEDDLERS' LICENSES. 



1. Persons disabled from procuring a livelihood by labor may be 

 licensed to peddle, for which license they are required to pay to 

 travel on foot, |8; with one horse and wagon, $16, and with two 

 horses and wagon, |25. No license to extend further than the 

 county for which it was granted, save wholesale peddlers, who are 

 required to pay for license to travel with one horse and wagon, fiO, 



and with two horses and wagon, $50. 



Act April 2, 1830, (P. L., 1829-30, page 147); act April 16, 1840, (P. L., 

 page 433). 



2. Punishment for peddling without license or refusing to show 



license is a fine of $20. 



Act May 9, 1889, (P. L., page 150). 



3. Disabled soldiers and sailors permitted to peddle without li- 

 cense on following conditions: Production of pension certificate 

 as evidence of disability, or certificate from a United States examin- 

 ing surgeon tliat a living cannot be procured by manual labor, and 

 a certificate from a prothonotary that afiidavit has been filed with 

 him setting forth that the soldier or sailor desiring to peddle is the 

 owner, in his own right, of all the goods he nroposes to peddle. 

 These certificates and the soldier's or sailor's discharge from United 



States service, are evidence of right to peddle. 

 Act June 9, 1891, (P. L., page 250).* 



*The special laws relating to peddling, passed prior to the adoption of our 

 present State Constitution, are too numerous to give. Some prohibit peddling 

 altogether, others require a special license for a county or city, and others 

 place conditions and limitations on the granting of a license. The only safe 

 rule to be observed by any one who desires to peddle is to make inquiry of 

 the treasurer of a county wherein he proposes to peddle what requirements 

 and restrictions there are on peddling in that county. 



