830 CHIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

missioners, 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 endorsements made on the said license shall be sub-
jected to the same penalty as though no State license had been
issued.

1892, ch. 596, sec. 9.

164. Any itinerant vendor, before making any sales oi such
goods, wares and merchandise, shall furnish to the clerk or
officers designated in section 153, 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 state-
ment shall make oath that the same is true, and said oath may
be administered by said clerk or any officer qualified to admin-
ister oaths. Such clerk or officer shall thereupon 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 merchandise 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 following its date. If the statement required by this
section is not filed as aforesaid, the clerk or officer designated
in section 153, 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 there-
upon fix the sum to be paid for such license, which sum shall
be binding upon the parties.