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$ 41. Every license granted, or to be granted, to any Revocation of dealer in second-hand articles, or keeper of a junk shop, may be revoked by the Mayor, on satisfactory cause appearing to him for so doing.

§ 42. No person shall keep what is commonly called a junk shop, for the purchase and sale of junk, rags, or old rope, old iron, brass, copper, tin, empty bottles, slush or lead; and no person shall draw or drive, or procure to be drawn or driven through the streets of this city, any handcart, wheel-barrow, or other carts or vehicles; and no person shall propel, or procure to be propelled through the waters of the city and county of New York, any boat, or other kind of vessel, for the purpose of collecting junk, rags, old rope, old iron, brass, copper, tin, empty bottles slush or lead, or deal in buying or selling either of such articles, without being first licensed by the Mayor for such purposes.

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§ 43. Every licensed keeper of a junk shop, for the pur- Vehicles and chase and sale of rags, old rope, old iron, brass, copper, empty bottles, tin, slush or lead, shall be entitled to keep one or more carts, wagons, or other vehicles; one or more boats or other vessels, for the purpose of collecting old junk, rags, old rope, old iron, brass, copper, empty bottles, tin, slush or lead, in the city of New York, provided he or she shall, before using such carts, wagons, boats or other vessels, or causing the same to be used, cause to be painted on the outer side of such hand carts, wheel-barrows, or other carts or vehicles, boats or vessels, his name, at length, the street and number of his place of business-the number of his license in plain letters and figures, put on with paint, of not less than two and a half inches in length; and no person or persons except such as are regularly licensed for the purpose aforesaid, according to the provisions of this chapter, or persons in the employ of such licensed dealer,

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shall draw or drive, or procure to be drawn or driven, or propelled, any such hand-carts, wheel-barrows, carts, wagons, or other vehicles, boats, or other vessels.

§ 44. A separate license shall be obtained, by the owner. thereof, for each and every cart, wagon, or other vehicle, boat, or other vessel.

45. Every owner of a cart, wagon, or other vehicle, boat or other vessel, on receiving his or her license, shall pay for each and every cart, wagon, or other vehicle, boat or other vessel, to the Mayor of the city of New York, for the use of said city, the sum of ten dollars.

§ 46. In case any person so licensed as aforesaid, shall remove his or her store, or place of business, from the place designated in said license, he or she shall immediately thereupon give notice thereof to the Mayor, and have the same indorsed upon such license, and the number of his or her place of business shall thereupon be changed on the sides of the vehicle or vessel used by such licensed dealer, and made to correspond with such change of store or place of business.

§ 47. The Superintendent of Police, aided and assisted by such policemen as he may deem necessary, shall be the inspector of pawnbrokers, dealers in second-hand articles, junk shops and intelligence offices.

48. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of the 2d, 3d and 4th articles of this chapter, shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in and by said article, or, in lieu thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished, on conviction, pursuant to the provisions of sections twenty and twenty-one of an act relative to the powers of the Common Council of the city of New York, and the police and criminal courts of said city, passed by the Legislature of the State of New York, January 23d,

1833.

CHAPTER XLIII.

OF INTELLIGENCE OFFICES.

§ 1. The Mayor of the city of New York, for the time Licenses. being, shall, from time to time, issue licenses, under his hand and seal, to so many and such persons as he shall think proper, to keep intelligence offices in the said city, and shall have power to revoke all or any of the said licenses at pleasure.

§ 2. Each license shall designate the house in which the Ibid. person licensed shall keep his office, and the number of such license, and shall continue and be in force until the first Tuesday of May next ensuing the date thereof, and no longer, unless sooner revoked by the Mayor.

§ 3. Every person who may be licensed under and by License Fee. virtue of the provisions of this chapter, shall pay to the Mayor, for the use of the city, the sum of twenty-five dollars, and for the renewal of any such license, the sum of twelve dollars and fifty cents.

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§ 4. No person shall keep any intelligence office in the None to keep city of New York, without having such license as afore- cense. said, or after the same shall have been revoked, or shall have expired, or at any other house or place than is designated in such license, under the penalty of fifty dollars for every such offense.

Dogs running at large.

Killing dogs.

Pay of dog killers.

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Killing Dogs.

CHAPTER XLIV.

OF PROVISIONS CONCERNING DOGS.

§ 1. No dog shall hereafter be permitted to go abroad in any of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys or public places of this city, without being properly muzzled, or being led by a chain or string, under the penalty of ten dollars for each offense, to be recovered against the owner, possessor or person who harbored such dog, within three days previous to the time of such dog being found so going abroad. And it shall be lawful for any person whosoever, to seize and kill any dog so running at large without being muz zled or led by a chain or string.

§ 2. The Mayor may, from time to time, and for such time as he shall think proper, appoint one or more suitable persons to kill and destroy all dogs found running loose or at large in the streets, roads, squares and public places of said city, unless they are properly muzzled.

§ 3. The persons so appointed shall receive the sum of two dollars per day, for each day they shall be so employ. ed, and shall make weekly returns to the Mayor, of the number of dogs they may severally kill.

§ 4. No person shall hinder or molest any person or persons who may be engaged in seizing and killing any dog or in removing the carcass thereof, under the penalty of one hundred dollars for each offense.

85. The Mayor is hereby authorized, from time to time, and for such time as he may think proper, and under such regulations as he may prescribe, to pay, or cause to be paid

to persons who shall not be regularly appointed to kill or destroy dogs, a sum not exceeding fifty cents for each dog found running loose or at large in the city, below Fortysecond street, without being properly muzzled, and which may be killed or destroyed by them.

§ 6. No part of this law shall apply to so much of the Limit city as lies north of Forty-second street, to prevent dogs running at large between sunset and sunrise.

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