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pany, association or fraternal beneficiary association to be
insolvent, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars, or imprisonment in jail for a period not
exceeding six months, or both, in the discretion of the court.

Fraud—Itinerant Vendors.

1892, ch. 596, sec. 1.

146. The words "itinerant vendors," for the purposes of
this sub-title, shall be construed to mean and include all
persons, both principals and agents, who engage in a tem-
porary or transient business in this State, either in one or
more places in one locality, or in traveling from place to place,
selling goods, wares and merchandise, and who, for the pur-
pose of carrying on such business, hire, lease or occupy any
building or structure for the exhibition and sale of such goods,
wares and merchandise.

Ibid. sec. 2.

147. The provisions of this sub-title shall not apply to
sales made to dealers by commercial travelers or selling agents
in the usual course of business nor to bona fide sales of goods,
wares and merchandise by sample for future delivery nor to
hawkers on the streets or peddlers from vehicles.

Ibid. sec. 3.

148. Every itinerant vendor who shall sell or expose for sale
at public or private sale any goods, wares and merchandise
without State and local licenses therefor, issued as provided in
this sub-title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be
punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by
imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, or both such fine and
imprisonment.

Ibid. sec. 4.

149. All persons, both principals and agents, who shall by
circular handbill, newspaper or in any other manner advertise
any such sales as those referred to in the section last preced-
ing, before proper licenses shall be issued to the vendor, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by fine not
exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding
sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Ibid. sec. 5.

150. It shall be the duty of every itinerant vendor, whether
principal or agent, before commencing business, to take out a