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COUNTY OF ELGIN
64
By-Law No
"FOR REGULATING THE AMOUNT TO BE PAID BY AUCTIONEERS FOR
MERCHANDIZE OR EFFECTS BY
WARES
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LkICENSE Tº-1?ELL_GOODS
IN
IT SHALL BE IN FORCE
PUB4IC AUCTJON ANlL'J'..Q FIX THE TIME
!HE __C OUNTY _OF Ji:i:,G [l\!,'
Passed 28th January 1859
WHEREAS by the 277th Section of the Municipal
Institutions Act of 1858 it is thereby enacted "that the
County Council of every County may pass By-Laws for Li-
censing, regulating and governing Auctioneers and other
persons selling or putting up for sale goods, wares and
merchandize or effects by public auction and for fixing
the sum to be paid for every such License and the time
it shall be in force"
BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Municipal Cor-
poration of the County of Elgin -
That from and after the first day of March
next in that and every ensuing year during the continu-
ance of this By-Law there shall be paid for a license
to be taken out by every Auctioneer or person selling
or putting up for sale goods, wares, merchandize or ef-
fects by public auction within the said County of Elgin
the sum of Twelve dollars.
BE IT FURTHER enacted that any person found
auctioneering any goods, wares, merchandize or effects
within the said County of Elgin without a license con-
trary to this By-Law shall be convicted on satisfactory
proof before any Justice of the Peace for the said
County and fined in a sum not exceeding Twenty dollars
nor less than twelve dollars and costs which fine and
costs if not paid forthwith to be levied by distress
and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender and
in case of there being no distress found to commit the
offender to the Common Goal or nearest Lock Up House
for a term not exceeding twenty days at the discretion
of the convicting Justice.
AND BE IT FURTHER enacted that it shall be
lawful when the pecuniary penalty has been levied that
one moiety thereof shall go to the informer or pro-
secutor and the other moiety to the Corporation of
the County of Elgin.
(Cont'd)
By-Law No. 64 Page 2
AND BE IT FURTHER enacted that it shall be the
duty of the Clerk and he is hereby authorized to issue
such Licenses with the Common Seal of the Corporation of
the County attached thereto which said Licenses shall be
in force for one year commencing and ending on the first
day of March in each and every year during the continu-
ance of this By-Law and to receive the sum of fifty cents
fees - for issuing such License.
AND IT IS FURTHER enacted that this By-Law shall
be in force from and after the first day of March next
Anything to the contrary herein not withstanding.
Levi Fowler
Warden
William McKay
County Clerk
Read a first time 28th January 1859.
Certified - W. McKay Clerk
Read a second time 28th January 1859.
Certified - W. McKay Clerk
Read a third time and finally passed 28th January 1859
Certified - W. McKay Clerk