Amending Ordinance No. 1758 and Repealing Section 6 of Ordinance No. 1784

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ORDINANCE NO. 9 70 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 1758 ADOPTED FEBRUARY • 22, 1915 AND REPEALING:: SECTION 6 OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 1784, ADOPTED MAY 10th. 1915. BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana. SECTION 1 . That Section One of Ordinance Number 1758, being Ordinance ' . Number 458 of a compilation of ordinances in book form known as Ordin- ance Number 1827 and adopted February 14, 1916, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows, to-wit: "Every person who shall sell, barter, or • exchange, or offer for sale, barter, or exchange at re- tail any goods, wares or merchandise (which terms shal_ - also include all fruits, vegetables, refreshments, con- fectionery and country produces) by traveling from place to place in said city and selling or offering to sell such • things from a pack carried on the person or from a wagon, push-cart, • or other vehicle or mode or method of transporta- tion shall be deemed a peddler and shall, before engaging in • such business, obtain a peddler' s license as elsewhere in ' said Ordinance Number 17.56 provided. Such peddler, while on the streets and public places of said city, shall keep moving . from place to place save and except while in the act of ne- gotiating a sale or sales . " • SECTION 2. •j That Section Four of said Ordinance Number 1758, being • Section 461 of said Ordinance Number 1784, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows, to-wit: • "The fees for licenses for such peddling for a period of one quarter shall be as follows: • Pack Peddler' v 8.00 per period - Push-Cart, Wagon or Vehicle Peddler w 50.00 per period. " ' SECTION 3. • That Section Nine of said Ordinance Number 1758, being Section 466 of said Ordinance Number 1784, .be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows, to-wit: "That the provisions of .this Ordinance shall not apply to the sale of newspapers nor to the sale of produce, vegetables, or fruits when such produce, vege- tables, or fruits when such produce, vegetables or fruit is raised, grown and produced by the person so selling the • • same, nor shall the provision of this Ordinance apply to wholesale travelling merchants who sell. on'y to resident retail dealers in wholesale quantities, provided, however, ' that all persons who desire to sell produce, vegetables, or fruit of their own raising shall, before peddling the same apply to the City Controller and make affidavit to the effect that the produce, vegetables or fruit which he desires to sell is of his own raising and if such person fails or refuses to make such affidavit, then if he peddle he shall be liable to the penalties of said Ordinance. " SECTION 4. That a new section to be known as Section 10-a of said