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sum for any fractional part of a year not less, than one month, and all
licenses so issued shall be made to expire on the first day of May next suc-
ceeding the date of their issue. Every license shall set forth a copy of the
application upon which it is granted. Such license shall not be transferable,
nor give authority to more than one person to sell goods as an itinerant
vendor, either by agent or clerk, or in any other way than in his own proper
person, but any licensee may have the assistance of one or more persons in
conducting his business, who shall have authority to aid that principal but
not to act f or or without his.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 195. 1912, sec. 169. 1904, sec. 152. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 7.

231. All applications for licenses shall be sworn to, shall disclose the
names and residences of the owners or parties in whose interest said business
is conducted, and shall be kept on file by the clerk of the court; and a
record shall be kept by him 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, 1924, sec. 196. 1912, sec. 170. 1904, sec. 153. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 8.

232. Before selling under any 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, 1924, sec. 197. 1912, sec: 171. 1904, sec. 154. 1892, ch. 596, sec. 9.

233. Any itinerant vendor, before making any sales of such goods,
wares and merchandise, shall furnish to the clerk or officers designated in
section 232, 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 aver-
age 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 thou-
sand 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