AN ORDINANCE FOR REVISING AND CONSOLIDATING THE GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO. WHEREAS, It is necessary, as well as expedient, that the general ordinances of the City of Chicago should be consolidated and arranged in appropriate chapters and sections; that omissions should be supplied and defects amended, and that the whole should be rendered plain, concise and intelligible; therefore, Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago, in manner following, that is to say: 1. WHO MAY SELL AT AUCTION.] Rev. Ord. 1866; amend. May 8, 1872. All sales of goods, chattels or personal property, at public auction, except such as are made under and by virtue of legal process, within said city, shall be made by an auctioneer, his co-partner or clerk, who shall first have obtained a license under the hand of the mayor and seal of the city, and shall also have paid therefor, to the city collector, at the rate of two hundred dollars per annum, and shall have executed a bond, with two sureties, to said city, to be approved by the mayor, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned for the due observance of the ordinances and regulations of the common council. All licenses to auctioneers shall be made to expire on the last day of April next after the date thereof, and shall be subject to revocation, by the mayor, whenever it shall appear to his satisfaction that the party so licensed shall have violated any provision of any ordinance of the city relating to auctions or auction sales, or any condition of the bond aforesaid. 2. LICENSES-APPLICATION FOR-HOW TRANSFERABLE.] Every person who may wish to obtain a license, as above mentioned, shall apply in writing for the same to the mayor, setting forth therein his proposed place of business and the names of his securities, and in no case shall such license be transferable, or the place of business changed, without the consent in writing of the mayor. 3. PENALTY FOR SELLING WITHOUT LICENSE.] Rev. Ord. 1866; re-ord. May 8, 1872. Any person or persons who shall sell, or attempt to sell, at public auction, in said city, any goods, chattels or personal property whatever, except under and by virtue of legal process, without first having obtained a license therefor, as above required, shall forfeit and pay, for each offense, the sum of fifty dollars. 4. Sale of Jewelry-RequirEMENT.] Ord. May 8, 1872. It shall be the duty of every auctioneer who shall offer for sale any watch, plate or jewelry of any kind, to announce, to the persons present, in a loud voice, whether the same be gold, gold plate, silver, silver plate or base metal, before proceeding to sell the same. Every auctioneer who shall offer for sale any watch, plate or other jewelry, without first making such announcement shall, on conviction thereof, pay a fine of not more than fifty dollars nor less than ten dollars for each offense. 5. RIGHTS OF PURCHASER-PENALTY.] The purchaser at an auction sale of any watch, plate or jewelry shall have the right to return it to the auctioneer at any time within five days from the day of the sale, if the watch, plate or jewelry be not of the quality represented to him, and the auctioneer shall return, to the purchaser, the price of the article. Should he refuse to do so, he shall forfeit his license and be liable to a fine of fifty dollars: And it is hereby provided, that if it shall be made to appear, to the satisfaction of the mayor, that the place of sale, or the place of business, of any such auctioneer shall have been closed at any time, during said five days, for the purpose of avoiding an offer to return any such article so sold, the mayor shall revoke the license of such auctioneer. 6. SUBSTITUTION FOR ARTICLES SOLD-PENALTY.] Any auctioneer who shall exhibit and offer for sale at auction any article and induce its purchase. by any bidder, and who shall afterward substitute any article in lieu of that offered to and purchased by the bidder, shall forfeit his license and be liable to a fine of fifty dollars. 7. FALSE REPRESENTATIONS-PENALTY.] Any auctioneer or person being present when any watch, plate or jewelry is offered for sale, who shall knowingly, with intent to induce any person or persons to purchase the same, or any part thereof, make any false representation or statement as to the |