1034 ARTICLE 27.

record shall be kept by Mm of all licenses issued upon such applications.
All files and records, both of the clerk of the court and of the respective
clerks to the county commissioners or the clerk or officer designated to col-
lect license fees by any incorporated town or city in this State, shall be in
convenient form and open for public inspection.

An. Code, sec. 170. 1904, sec. 153. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 8.

196. Before selling under said State license, every itinerant vendor
shall exhibit the same to the clerk to the county commissioners, or to the
clerk or officer designated to collect license fees by any incorporated town or
city in this State where he proposes to make sales. And upon payment to
said clerk or officer of a further local license fee to be ascertained in the
manner provided in the following section, and the proof of payment of all
such other license fees, if any, as are legally, chargeable upon local sales, the
clerk or officer shall endorse upon it the words " Local License Fees Paid,"
and shall affix his official signature, together with the date of such endorse-
ment. Any failure to obtain a local license, if any, and for proper endorse-
ments made on the said license shall be subjected to the same penalty as
though no State license had been issued.

An. Code, sec. 171. 1904, sec. 154. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 9.

197. Any itinerant vendor, before making any sales of such goods, wares
and merchandise, shall furnish to the clerk or officers designated in section
196, where any goods, wares and merchandise are kept or to be kept or
exposed for sale or sold by him or them, a true statement of the average
quantity and value of the stock of goods, wares and merchandise so kept and
exposed for sale. The person furnishing such statement shall make oath
that the same is true, and said oath may be administered by said clerk or
any officer qualified to administer oaths. Such clerk or officer shall there-
upon ascertain the amount to be paid for the local license, by a computation
based upon the average valuation of such stock of goods, wares and mer-
chandise so kept or exposed for sale, in the ratio and of the rate per thousand
dollars of valuation of the last preceding tax levy made in such city or
county, and upon receipt of the amount so fixed and ascertained shall issue
to the person filing or furnishing such statement a local license authorizing
the sale of such goods, wares and merchandise within the limits of such
county or city, which license shall be and continue in force so long as the
licensee thereunder shall continuously keep and expose for sale in city or
county such stock of goods, wares and merchandise, except that such license
shall in any event terminate and expire on the first day of May next follow-
ing its date. If the statement required by this section is not filed as afore-
said, the clerk or officer designated in section 196, of the city or county in
which such goods are so kept or exposed for sale, or where such itinerant
vendor desires to sell such goods, wares and merchandise, shall thereupon
fix the sum to be paid for such license, which sum shall'be binding upon the
parties.